¹Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire will devour your cedars.

²Scream, cypress, for the cedar has fallen;

Scream, oaks of Bashan, for the deep forest has fallen.

³The sound of screaming appears among the shepherds

The shepherd’s two staffs

⁴This is what the LORD my God says:

Shepherd the flock intended for slaughter.

⁷So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter,

I took two staffs for myself.

I shepherded the flock.

⁸I removed three shepherds in one month

⁹Then I said, “I won’t shepherd you.

Let the dying die,

Let those who are left devour the flesh of their neighbor.”

¹⁰Then I took the staff Delight,

¹²And I said to them,

¹³The LORD said to me,

So I took the thirty shekels of silver

¹⁴Then I chopped up my second staff Harmony,

¹⁵Then the LORD said to me,

“Take for yourself again the equipment of a foolish shepherd,