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\v 1 Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars!
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\v 2 Lament, cypress trees, for the cedar trees have fallen! What was majestic has been devastated!
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\q Lament, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has gone down.
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\v 3 The shepherds howl, for their glory has been destroyed!
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\q The voice of the young lions roars, for the
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pride of the Jordan River has been devastated!
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\v 4 This is what Yahweh my God says: "Like a shepherd, watch over the flock destined for slaughter!
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\v 5 (The ones who buy them slaughter them and are not punished, and the ones who sell them say,
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'Blessed be Yahweh! I have become rich!' for the shepherds working for the flocks' owners have no pity on them.)
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\v 6 For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land!"—this is Yahweh's declaration. "See! I myself am about to turn over every person into his neighbor's hands and into his king's hands. They will crush the land. I will not rescue Judah from their hand."
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\v 7 So I became the shepherd of the flock destined for slaughter, for those who dealt in sheep. I took two staffs; one staff I called "Favor" and the other I called "Unity." In this way I shepherded the flock.
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\v 8 I killed the three shepherds in one month. And I grew tired of the sheep owners, for they also hated me.
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\v 9 Then I said to the owners, "I will not work as a shepherd for you any longer. The sheep that are dying—let them die; the sheep that are being destroyed—let them be destroyed. Let the sheep that remain each eat the flesh of its neighbor."
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\v 10 So I took my staff "Favor" and broke it to break the covenant that I had made with all of my tribes.
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\v 11 On that day the covenant was broken, and those who dealt in sheep and who were watching me knew that Yahweh had spoken.
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\v 12 I said to them, "If it seems good to you, pay me my wages. But if not, do not do it." So they weighed out my wages—thirty pieces of silver.
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\v 13 Then Yahweh said to me, "Deposit the silver in the treasury, the excellent price at which they valued you!"
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So I took the thirty pieces of silver and deposited them in the treasury in the house of Yahweh.
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\v 14 Then I broke my second staff, "Unity," to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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\v 15 Yahweh said to me, "Again, take the equipment of a foolish shepherd for yourself,
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\v 16 for see, I am about to set in place a shepherd in the land. He will not care for the perishing sheep. He will not seek out the sheep gone missing,
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nor heal the crippled sheep. He will not feed the sheep that are healthy, but will eat the flesh of the fattened sheep and will tear off their hooves.
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\v 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who forsakes the flock!
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\q May the sword come against his arm and his right eye!
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\q May his arm wither away, and may his right eye become blind!"
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