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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Listen to the howling of shepherds, because their magnificence has been destroyed. Listen to the roaring of young lions, because the thickets of the Jordan have been devastated. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4The LORD my God says this: "Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds have no compassion for them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land," says the LORD, "but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7So I began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted of all the flock. Then I took two staffs, calling one "Pleasantness" and the other "Binders," and I tended the flock. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month, for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9I then said, "I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other's flesh!" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Then I took my staff "Pleasantness" and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So it was annulled that very day, and then the most afflicted of the flock who kept faith with me knew that that was the word of the LORD. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it." So they weighed out my payment--thirty pieces of silver. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The LORD then said to me, "Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!" So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the LORD. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then I cut the second staff "Binders" in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Again the LORD said to me, "Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither completely away, and his right eye become completely blind!" |
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