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.