1. Open your doors, O Lebanon,so the fire can consume your cedar.
2. Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen;the majestic trees are destroyed.Wail, O oaks of Bashan,because the unassailable forest has been brought down.
3. There is the sound of wailing shepherds,because their glory is ruined.There is the sound of roaring lions,because the pride of Jordan is ruined.
4. Thus says the Lord my God: Shepherd the flock of slaughter.
5. The ones who buy them then slaughter them and have no guilt, and those who sell them say, “Blessed is the Lord because I am rich.” Their own shepherds do not take pity on them.
6. For I will no longer have pity on those who dwell in the land, says the Lord. But I will cause each of them to fall into the hands of his neighbor, even into the hands of his king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver any from their hands.
7. So I shepherded the flock that was for slaughter, even the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs. One I called Favor and the other I gave the name Union. So I pastured the flock.
8. I destroyed the three shepherds in the span of one month.For my soul was impatient with them, and their souls detested me.
9. Then I said, “I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die. What is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed. Let those who are left devour each other’s flesh.”
10. I took the staff named Favor and cut it into pieces, to break the covenant that I made with all the peoples.