1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire…
2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen;…
3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for…
4This is what the LORD my God says:…
5whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who…
6For I will no longer have compassion on…
7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter,…
8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds.…
9Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd…
10Next I took my staff called Favor and…
11It was revoked on that day, and so…
12Then I told them, “If it seems right…
13And the LORD said to me, “Throw it…
14Then I cut in two my second staff…
15And the LORD said to me: “Take up…
16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd…
17Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the…
