1 Open your doors, O Lebanon,that the fire may devour your cedars!
2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,for the glorious trees are ruined!Wail, oaks of Bashan,for the thick forest has been felled!
3 The sound of the wail of the shepherds,for their glory is ruined!The sound of the roar of the lions, for the thicket of the Jordan is ruined!
4 Thus said the Lord my God: “Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.
5 Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished, and those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, I have become rich,’ and their own shepherds have no pity on them.