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.