1. Open your doors, Lebanon,so that fire may devour your cedar forests.
2. Weep, you cypress trees, for all the ruined cedars;the most majestic ones have fallen.Weep, you oaks of Bashan,for the thick forests have been cut down.
3. Listen to the wailing of the shepherds,for their rich pastures are destroyed.Hear the young lions roaring,for their thickets in the Jordan Valley are ruined.
4. This is what the lord my God says: “Go and care for the flock that is intended for slaughter.
5. The buyers slaughter their sheep without remorse. The sellers say, ‘Praise the lord! Now I’m rich!’ Even the shepherds have no compassion for them.
6. Likewise, I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” says the lord. “I will let them fall into each other’s hands and into the hands of their king. They will turn the land into a wilderness, and I will not rescue them.”
7. So I cared for the flock intended for slaughter—the flock that was oppressed. Then I took two shepherd’s staffs and named one Favor and the other Union.