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The Doomed Flock

Open your doors, O Lebanon,
That a fire may feed on your cedars.

Desolation of Israel

Open your doors, O Lebanon,
That fire may devour your cedars.

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
Because the glorious trees have been destroyed;
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
For the impenetrable forest has come down.

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Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
Because the mighty trees are ruined.
Wail, O oaks of Bashan,
For the thick forest has come down.

3

There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,
For their glory is ruined;
There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,
For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

3

There is the sound of wailing shepherds!
For their glory is in ruins.
There is the sound of roaring lions!
For the [a]pride of the Jordan is in ruins.

4

Thus says the LORD my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter.

4

Prophecy of the Shepherds

Thus says the Lord my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter,

5

“Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich!’ And their own shepherds have no pity on them.

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whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich’; and their shepherds do not pity them.

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“For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD; “but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another’s power and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.”

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For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord. “But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They shall [b]attack the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”

7

So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock.

7

So I fed the flock for slaughter, [c]in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called [d]Beauty, and the other I called [e]Bonds; and I fed the flock.

8

Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.

8

I [f]dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

9

Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.”

9

Then I said, “I will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.”

10

I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

10

And I took my staff, [g]Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

11

So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD.

11

So it was broken on that day. Thus the[h] poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.

12

I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind!” So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages.

12

Then I said to them, “If it is [i]agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

13

Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

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And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter” — that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter.

14

Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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Then I cut in two my other staff, [j]Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15

The LORD said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

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And the Lord said to me, “Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd.

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“For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

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For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces.

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“Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who leaves the flock!
A sword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His arm will be totally withered
And his right eye will be blind.”

17

“Woe to the worthless shepherd,
Who leaves the flock!
A sword shall be against his arm
And against his right eye;
His arm shall completely wither,
And his right eye shall be totally blinded.”

Parallel

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Zechariah 11

Zechariah 11