| Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars! | 1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars! |
| 2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down! | 2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled! |
| 3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed. | 3The sound of the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is ruined! The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined! |
| 4This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter, | 4Thus said the LORD my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. |
| 5whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them. | 5Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them. |
| 6For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.” | 6For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the LORD. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.” |
| 7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock. | 7So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep traders. And I took two staffs, one I named Favor, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep. |
| 8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me. | 8In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. |
| 9Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.” | 9So I said, “I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. And let those who are left devour the flesh of one another.” |
| 10Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations. | 10And I took my staff Favor, and I broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples. |
| 11It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD. | 11So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD. |
| 12Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. | 12Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” And they weighed out as my wages thirty pieces of silver. |
| 13And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD. | 13Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter. |
| 14Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. | 14Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
| 15And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. | 15Then the LORD said to me, “Take once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. |
| 16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves. | 16For behold, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for those being destroyed, or seek the young or heal the maimed or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs. |
| 17Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!” | 17“Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!” |
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