1 Open your doors, Lebanon,that fire may devour your cedars!
2 Wail, cypress trees,for the cedars are fallen,the mighty are destroyed!Wail, oaks of Bashan,for the dense forest is cut down!
3 Listen! the wailing of shepherds,their glory has been destroyed.Listen! the roaring of young lions,the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
4 Thus says the Lord, my God: Shepherd the flock to be slaughtered.
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.
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.
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.