| New King James Version | NET Bible |
| 1Open your doors, O Lebanon, That fire may devour your cedars. | 1Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars. |
| 2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the mighty trees are ruined. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the thick forest has come down. | 2Howl, fir tree, because the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees have been destroyed. Howl, oaks of Bashan, because the impenetrable forest has fallen. |
| 3There is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins. | 3Listen to the howling of shepherds, because their magnificence has been destroyed. Listen to the roaring of young lions, because the thickets of the Jordan have been devastated. |
| 4Thus says the LORD my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter, | 4The LORD my God says this: "Shepherd the flock set aside for slaughter. |
| 5whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich’; and their shepherds do not pity them. | 5Those who buy them slaughter them and are not held guilty; those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds have no compassion for them. |
| 6For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the LORD. “But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.” | 6Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land," says the LORD, "but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them." |
| 7So I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds; and I fed the flock. | 7So I began to shepherd the flock destined for slaughter, the most afflicted of all the flock. Then I took two staffs, calling one "Pleasantness" and the other "Binders," and I tended the flock. |
| 8I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. | 8Next I eradicated the three shepherds in one month, for I ran out of patience with them and, indeed, they detested me as well. |
| 9Then I said, “I will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.” | 9I then said, "I will not shepherd you. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be eradicated, let it be eradicated. As for those who survive, let them eat each other's flesh!" |
| 10And I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples. | 10Then I took my staff "Pleasantness" and cut it in two to annul my covenant that I had made with all the people. |
| 11So it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD. | 11So it was annulled that very day, and then the most afflicted of the flock who kept faith with me knew that that was the word of the LORD. |
| 12Then I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. | 12Then I said to them, "If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it." So they weighed out my payment--thirty pieces of silver. |
| 13And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD for the potter. | 13The LORD then said to me, "Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!" So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the LORD. |
| 14Then I cut in two my other staff, Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. | 14Then I cut the second staff "Binders" in two in order to annul the covenant of brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
| 15And the LORD said to me, “Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd. | 15Again the LORD said to me, "Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. |
| 16For indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces. | 16Indeed, I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not take heed to the sheep headed to slaughter, will not seek the scattered, and will not heal the injured. Moreover, he will not nourish the one that is healthy but instead will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves. |
| 17“Woe to the worthless shepherd, Who leaves the flock! A sword shall be against his arm And against his right eye; His arm shall completely wither, And his right eye shall be totally blinded.” | 17Woe to the worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither completely away, and his right eye become completely blind!" |
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