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1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
3 [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
4 Thus says the LORD [Yahweh] my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed [be] the LORD [Yahweh]; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD [Yahweh]: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they will smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver [them].
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, [even] you, O poor of the flock. And I took to me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dies, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
10 And I took my staff, [even] Beauty, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
11 And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it [was] the word of the LORD [Yahweh].
12 And I said to them, If you think good, give [me] my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty [pieces] of silver.
13 And the LORD [Yahweh] said to me, Cast it to the potter: a goodly price that I was priced at by them. And I took the thirty [pieces] of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD [Yahweh].
14 Then I cut apart my other staff, [even] Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 And the LORD [Yahweh] said to me, Take to you yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
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16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, [which] will not visit those that be cut off, neither will seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that stands still: but he will eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
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17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword [will be] upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm will be clean dried up, and his right eye will be utterly darkened. - PASTORS