| New Living Translation | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedar forests. | 1Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars. |
| 2Weep, 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. | 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. |
| 3Listen 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. The Good and Evil Shepherds | 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. |
| 4This is what the LORD my God says: “Go and care for the flock that is intended for slaughter. | 4Thus says the LORD my God, "Pasture the flock doomed to slaughter. |
| 5The buyers slaughter their sheep without remorse. The sellers say, ‘Praise the LORD! Now I’m rich!’ Even the shepherds have no compassion for them. | 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. |
| 6Likewise, 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.” | 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." |
| 7So 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. | 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. |
| 8I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too. | 8Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me. |
| 9So I told them, “I won’t be your shepherd any longer. If you die, you die. If you are killed, you are killed. And let those who remain devour each other!” | 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." |
| 10Then I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, showing that I had revoked the covenant I had made with all the nations. | 10I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. |
| 11That was the end of my covenant with them. The suffering flock was watching me, and they knew that the LORD was speaking through my actions. | 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. |
| 12And I said to them, “If you like, give me my wages, whatever I am worth; but only if you want to.” So they counted out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. | 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. |
| 13And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter ”—this magnificent sum at which they valued me! So I took the thirty coins and threw them to the potter in the Temple of the LORD. | 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. |
| 14Then I took my other staff, Union, and cut it in two, showing that the bond of unity between Judah and Israel was broken. | 14Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
| 15Then the LORD said to me, “Go again and play the part of a worthless shepherd. | 15The LORD said to me, "Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd. |
| 16This illustrates how I will give this nation a shepherd who will not care for those who are dying, nor look after the young, nor heal the injured, nor feed the healthy. Instead, this shepherd will eat the meat of the fattest sheep and tear off their hooves. | 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. |
| 17“What sorrow awaits this worthless shepherd who abandons the flock! The sword will cut his arm and pierce his right eye. His arm will become useless, and his right eye completely blind.” | 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." |
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