11:1  Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars.

11:2  Wail, 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.

11:3  There 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.

11:4  Thus says the LORD my God, "Pasture the flock {doomed} to slaughter.

11:5  "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.

11:6  "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.""

11:7  So 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.

11:8  Then I annihilated the three shepherds in one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also was weary of me.

11:9  Then 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."

11:10  I took my staff Favor and cut it in pieces, to break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

11:11  So 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.

11:12  I 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."

11:13  Then 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."

11:14  Then I cut in pieces my second staff Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

11:15  The LORD said to me, "Take again for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

11:16  "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.

11:17  "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."