2. Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen,because the stately ones are destroyed.Wail, you oaks of Bashan,for the strong forest has come down.
3. A 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 ruined.
4. the Lord my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
5. Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
6. For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”
7. So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
8. I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
9. Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”
10. I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
11. It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the Lord’s word.