For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand. As "their own shepherds pitied not" the people (Zechariah 11:5), so "the Lord" would "no more pity" either them or their dupes, who shared their guilt. Yahweh, in vengeance for their rejection of Messiah, gave them over to intestine feuds and Roman rule. The zealots and other factious Jews expelled and slew one another by turns at the last invasion by Rome.
And into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land - Vespasian or Titus: they themselves (John 19:15) had said, unconsciously realizing Zechariah's words, and identifying Rome's king with Judah's ("his") king, "We have no king but Caesar." God took them at their word, and gave them the Roman king, who "smote (literally [kitªtuw], dashed in pieces) their land," breaking up their polity, when they rejected their true King, who would have saved them.