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1 Open your doors, O Lebanon (whiteness), that the fire may consume your cedars! 2 Wail, O cypress (pine), for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan (fruitful), for the dense forest has been cut down! 3 Listen 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 (flowing down) are destroyed. 4 This is what the LORD my God {YHWH Elohay} says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter, 5 whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD {YHWH}, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them. 6 For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD {YHWH}, 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.” 7 So 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. Zechariah 11:1-7, Berean Annotated Bible. Public domain.
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