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11 |
1 | Open
thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. |
2 | Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen;
because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of
the vintage is come down. |
3 |
There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is
spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is
spoiled. |
4 | Thus saith the
LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; |
5 | Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not
guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and
their own shepherds pity them not. |
6 | For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the
LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and
into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand
I will not deliver them. |
7 |
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And
I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called
Bands; and I fed the flock. |
8 |
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and
their soul also abhorred me. |
9
| Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and
that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one
the flesh of another. |
10 |
And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my
covenant which I had made with all the people. |
11 | And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of
the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the LORD. |
12 | And I said unto them, If ye
think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price
thirty pieces of silver.
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13 |
And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I
was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to
the potter in the house of the LORD.
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14 | Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might
break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
15 | And the LORD said unto me, Take unto thee yet the
instruments of a foolish shepherd. |
16 | For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not
visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that
that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh
of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces. |
17 | Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the
sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean
dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. |
