1 Open your gates, Lebanon,and fire will consume your cedars.
2 Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen;the glorious trees are destroyed!Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the stately forest has fallen!
3 Listen to the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed.Listen to the roar of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
4 Yahweh my God says this: “Shepherd the flock intended for slaughter.
5 Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say: Praise the Lord because I have become rich! Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them.
6 Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land” — this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”
7 So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.