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11:1  Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
11:2  Wail, O cypress; for the cedar has fallen; because the mighty trees are ruined: wail, O you oaks of Bashan; for the thick forest has come down.
11:3  There is a sound of the wailing of the shepherds; for their glory is in ruins: a sound of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of the Jordan is in ruins.
11:4  Thus says the LORD my God; Feed the flock for the slaughter;
11:5  Whose owners slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
11:6  For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD: but, lo, 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.
11:7  And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staffs; the one I called Grace, and the other I called Unity; and I fed the flock.
11:8  Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul loathed them, and their souls also abhorred me.
11:9  Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
11:10  And I took my staff, even Grace, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
11:11  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.
11:12  And I said unto them, If you think it good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
11:13  And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a princely price that I was valued at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
11:14  Then I cut asunder my other staff, even Unity, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
11:15  And the LORD said unto me, Take unto you yet the implements of a foolish shepherd.
11:16  For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit those that are cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that which stands: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their hoofs in pieces.
11:17  Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be wholly dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.