1. Open your doors, O Lebanon,so the fire can consume your cedar.
2. Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen;the majestic trees are destroyed.Wail, O oaks of Bashan,because the unassailable forest has been brought down.
3. There is the sound of wailing shepherds,because their glory is ruined.There is the sound of roaring lions,because the pride of Jordan is ruined.
4. Thus says the Lord my God: Shepherd the flock of slaughter.
5. The ones who buy them then slaughter them and have no guilt, and those who sell them say, “Blessed is the Lord because I am rich.” Their own shepherds do not take pity on them.
6. For I will no longer have pity on those who dwell in the land, says the Lord. But I will cause each of them to fall into the hands of his neighbor, even into the hands of his king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver any from their hands.
7. So I shepherded the flock that was for slaughter, even the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs. One I called Favor and the other I gave the name Union. So I pastured the flock.