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1Open your doors, O Lebanon,[#Jer 22.6, 7; Ezek 31.3]
so that fire may devour your cedars!
2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,[#Isa 32.19]
for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
for the thick forest has been felled!
3Listen, the wail of the shepherds,[#Jer 25.34–36; 50.44]
for their glory is despoiled!
Listen, the roar of the lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed!
4“Thus says the Lord my God: Be a shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.[#v 7]
5Those who buy them kill them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord , for I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.[#Jer 50.7; Hos 12.8]
6For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the earth, says the Lord . I will cause them, every one, to fall each into the hand of a neighbor and each into the hand of the king, and they shall devastate the earth, and I will deliver no one from their hand.”[#Jer 13.14; Mic 5.8; Zech 14.13]
7So on behalf of the sheep merchants, I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favor, the other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep.[#vv 10, 14 ; Ezek 37.16; Zeph 3.12; #11.7 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain]
8In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.[#Hos 5.7]
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 that are left devour the flesh of one another!”
10I took my staff Favor and broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.[#v 7; Jer 14.21]
11So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep merchants who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord .[#Zeph 3.12; #11.11 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain]
12I then said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages, but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver.[#Gen 37.28; Ex 21.32; 1 Kings 5.6; Mt 26.15]
13Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it into the treasury”—this lordly price at which I was valued by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the Lord .[#Mt 27.9; #11.13 Syr: Heb it to the potter; #11.13 Syr: Heb it to the potter]
14Then I broke my second staff Unity, annulling the family ties between Judah and Israel.
15Then the Lord said to me: “Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd.[#Ezek 34.2–4]
16For I am now raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the healthy, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.[#11.16 Syr Compare Gk Vg: Heb the youth; #11.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
17Oh, my worthless shepherd,[#Jer 23.1; Ezek 30.21, 22; Mic 3.6, 7; Jn 10.12]
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be completely withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!”