Jeremiah 7:21-32
[21] Thus says YHWH Tzabaoth, Elohei Yisrael,
Sweep away your burnt-offerings with your sacrifices, and consume
good news:
[22] For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitzraim, concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices.
[23] But this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken to My voice, and I will be your Elohim, and you shall be My people: and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
[24] But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
[25] Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Mitzraim unto this day, I have sent unto you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
[26] Yet they hearkened not unto Me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.
[27] And you shall speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken to you: and you shall call out unto them, but they will not answer you.
[28] And you shall say unto them, This is the nation that has not intelligently-hearkened unto the voice of YHWH their Elohim, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
[29] Cut off your hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the barren hills: for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.
[30] For the sons of Yhudah have done that which is evil in My sight, says YHWH, they have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
[31] And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire: which I commanded not, neither did it enter into My mind.
[32] Therefore, behold, the days come, says YHWH, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, [Gei·ben·Hinnom (Gei·Hinnom, Gehenna)] but The valley of the
having been Cut Off: [Gei·Ha·Haregah (harag)] for they shall bury in Tophet until there be no place to bury.
Harag - Haregah
Zechariah 11:4-17
[04] Thus says YHWH my Elohim: Tend the flock of the Cut Off, [haregah]
[05] Whose buyers cut them off [harag] and
hold themselves not guilty, and their sellers say, Blessed be YHWH, I am rich, and their shepherds have no pity on them.
[06] For I will no longer have pity on the dwellers of the land, an oracle of YHWH, and behold, I will deliver a man, each one into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king, and they will smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.
[07] And I will tend the flock that is cut off, even you, O afflicted of the flock. And I took two staffs to myself, the one I called Pleasantness, and the other I called Bands, and I tended the flock.
[08] And I cut off the three shepherds in one month: and my soul was grieved with them, and likewise their soul despised me,
[09] And I said, I will not feed you: that which is dying, let die: and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off: and let the remnant consume each one the flesh of its neighbor.
[10] And I took my staff, Pleasantness, and cut it asunder, to void my covenant which I had cut with all the peoples.
[11] And it was broken in that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were heeding me knew that it is the Word of YHWH.
[12] And I said to them, If
it is good in your eyes, give me my hire: and if not, forbear, and they weighed out my hire: thirty pieces of silver.
[13] And YHWH said to me, Cast it to the potter, the goodly price that I have been prized at by them, and I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them
into the house of YHWH unto the potter.
[14] And I cut asunder my second staff, Bands, to break the unity between Yhudah and Yisrael.
[15] And YHWH said to me, Take yet again to yourself the instruments of a foolish shepherd:
[16] For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not respect those that are cut off, neither will he seek out the young-wanderer, nor heal that which is broken, nor maintain that which is sound: but the flesh of the fat he will consume, and their hooves he will break into pieces.
[17] Woe to the
worthless-idol shepherd who abandons the flock! A sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be utterly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened!
Matthew 6:22-23
22 The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness: if therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is the darkness!
Sin and evil are personified: right arm, right hand, right eye, and there are evil shepherds over the members of a household which are themselves ruled by a worthless-idol shepherd who mistreats the members of his own body-temple household. We are admonished to cut them off because they are in turn cutting off the poor and afflicted of the little flock, (if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body), and concerning the little flock, or "these little ones", the Master is their Avenger, (Mat 18:6-15, 1Thes 4:1-9).