1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. 2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic ones are destroyed: wail, O you oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has come down. 3A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste. 4Thus said Yehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter; 5whose buyers kill them, and hold themselves not guilty; and those who sell them say, Blessed be Yehovah, for I am rich; and their own shepherds do not pity them. 6For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says Yehovah; but, behold, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. 7So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly the poor of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. 8And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me. 9Then I said, I will not feed you: what dies, let it die; and what is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat every one the flesh of another. 10And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. 11And it was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock who paid attention to me knew that it was the word of Yehovah. 12And I said to them, If you think it good, give me my wages; and if not, refrain. So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13And Yehovah said to me, Throw it to the potter, the lordly price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yehovah. 14Then I cut in two my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. 15And Yehovah said to me, Take for yourself once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. 16For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, nor seek those who are scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor feed what is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces. 17Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.