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11:1  Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars!
11:2  Wail, cypress trees, for the cedars are fallen, the mighty are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest is cut down!
11:3  Listen! the wailing of shepherds, their glory has been destroyed. Listen! the roaring of young lions, the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
11:4  Thus says the Lord, my God: Shepherd the flock to be slaughtered.
11:5  For they who buy them slay them and are not held accountable; while those who sell them say, “Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich!” Even their own shepherds will not pity them.
11:6  For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the earth—oracle of the Lord.—Yes, I will deliver them into each other’s power, or into the power of their kings; they will crush the earth, and I will not deliver it out of their power.
11:7  So I shepherded the flock to be slaughtered for the merchants of the flock. I took two staffs: one I called Delight, and the other Union. Thus I shepherded the flock.
11:8  In a single month, I did away with the three shepherds, for I wearied of them, and they disdained me.
11:9  “I will not shepherd you,” I said. “Whoever is to die shall die; whoever is to be done away with shall be done away with; and those who are left shall devour one another’s flesh.”
11:10  Then I took my staff Delight and snapped it in two, breaking my covenant which I had made with all peoples.
11:11  So it was broken on that day. The merchants of the flock, who were watching me, understood that this was the word of the Lord.
11:12  Then I said to them, “If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them.” And they counted out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
11:13  Then the Lord said to me, Throw it in the treasury—the handsome price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the Lord.
11:14  Then I snapped in two my second staff, Union, breaking the kinship between Judah and Israel.
11:15  The Lord said to me: This time take the gear of a foolish shepherd.
11:16  For I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that disappear, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed the exhausted; but he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs!
11:17  Ah! my worthless shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword fall upon his arm and upon his right eye; His arm will surely wither, and his right eye surely go blind!