| Holman Christian Standard Bible | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Open your gates, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars. | 1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars! |
| 2Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the glorious trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the stately forest has fallen! | 2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down! |
| 3Listen to the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. Listen to the roar of young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed. | 3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed. |
| 4Yahweh my God says this: "Shepherd the flock intended for slaughter. | 4This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter, |
| 5Those who buy them slaughter them but are not punished. Those who sell them say: Praise the LORD because I have become rich! Even their own shepherds have no compassion for them. | 5whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them. |
| 6Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land"--this is the LORD's declaration. "Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them." | 6For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.” |
| 7So I shepherded the flock intended for slaughter, the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock. | 7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock. |
| 8In one month I got rid of three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also detested me. | 8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me. |
| 9Then I said, "I will no longer shepherd you. Let what is dying die, and let what is going astray go astray; let the rest devour each other's flesh." | 9Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.” |
| 10Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, annulling the covenant I had made with all the peoples. | 10Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations. |
| 11It was annulled on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD. | 11It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD. |
| 12Then I said to them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." So they weighed my wages, 30 pieces of silver." | 12Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver. |
| 13Throw it to the potter," the LORD said to me--this magnificent price I was valued by them. So I took the 30 pieces of silver and threw it into the house of the LORD, to the potter. | 13And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD. |
| 14Then I cut in two my second staff, Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. | 14Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. |
| 15The LORD also said to me: "Take the equipment of a foolish shepherd. | 15And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd. |
| 16I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astray, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves. | 16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves. |
| 17Woe to the worthless shepherd who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither away and his right eye go completely blind!" | 17Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!” |
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