| New American Standard Bible 1995 | International Standard Version |
| 1Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars. | 1Open your doors, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars. |
| 2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the impenetrable forest has come down. | 2Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen while the stately trees are destroyed. Wail, oak trees of Bashan, for the old growth forest has been cut down. |
| 3There is a sound of the shepherds' wail, For their glory is ruined; There is a sound of the young lions' roar, For the pride of the Jordan is ruined. | 3Hear the wailing of the shepherds, for the magnificence of the forest is ruined! Hear the roar of the lions, for the Jordan's arrogance is ruined! |
| 4Thus says the LORD my God, "Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter. | 4This is what the LORD my God says: "Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter. |
| 5"Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I have become rich!' And their own shepherds have no pity on them. | 5Their buyers slaughter them without being punished, continuing to sell them as they say, 'Bless the LORD!' and, 'I'm rich!' Meanwhile, their shepherds show them no compassion. |
| 6"For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD; "but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another's power and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their power." | 6Therefore I will no longer show compassion upon those who live in the land," declares the LORD. "Look! I will deliver every single person into the control of his neighbor and into the control of the king. Even though they assault the land, I will not deliver it from their control." |
| 7So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Favor and the other I called Union; so I pastured the flock. | 7So I became shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter, paying attention to the oppressed of the flock. I took two staffs—naming one "Pleasant" and the other one "Union"—and then I pastured the flock. |
| 8Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me. | 8In a single month I got rid of three shepherds because I grew tired of them, and they despised me. |
| 9Then I said, "I will not pasture you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be annihilated, let it be annihilated; and let those who are left eat one another's flesh." | 9So I said, "I will no longer be your shepherd. Let those who are about to die perish, and let what is about to be destroyed be destroyed. As for the survivors, let them devour each other." |
| 10I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. | 10Then I took the staff that I had named "Pleasant" and broke it, showing I was breaking my covenant that I had made with all of the people. |
| 11So it was broken on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the LORD. | 11It was broken at that time so the oppressed of the flock who were observing me would know that it had been a message from the LORD. |
| 12I said to them, "If it is good in your sight, give me my wages; but if not, never mind!" So they weighed out thirty shekels of silver as my wages. | 12I told them, "If it's alright with you, pay me what I've earned. But if it isn't, don't." So they paid out what I had earned—30 pieces of silver. |
| 13Then the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them." So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD. | 13Then the LORD told me, "Throw the money into the treasury —that magnificent value they placed on me!" So I took the 30 shekels of silver and threw them into the treasury of the Temple of the LORD. |
| 14Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. | 14Then I broke my second staff—the one I had named "Union"—breaking the union between the house of Judah and the house of Israel. |
| 15The LORD said to me, "Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd. | 15The LORD told me, "Pick up the tools of a worthless shepherd again, |
| 16"For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs. | 16for I am now raising up a shepherd in the land who will neither search for the lost, nor care for the young, nor fix the broken, nor sustain the healthy. Instead, he will devour the meat of the best of the sheep, tearing off their hoofs." |
| 17"Woe to the worthless shepherd Who leaves the flock! A sword will be on his arm And on his right eye! His arm will be totally withered And his right eye will be blind." | 17"Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye. May his arm wither and his right eye be completely blind." |
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