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 suffered destruction; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the impenetrable forest has come down.

11:3  There comes a sound of the shepherds' wail,For their glory has turned into ruin; We hear the sound of the young lions' roar, For the pride of the Jordan has turned into ruin.

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 we acknowledge 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 felt impatience with them, and their soul also felt weary of me.

11:9   Then I said, "I will not pasture you. What will die, let it die, and what will become annihilated, let it become annihilated; and let those who remain 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 broke on that day, and thus the afflicted of the flock who watched me realized that the word of the LORD had come upon them.

11:12   I said to them, "If you consider it good in your sight, give me my ages; 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 they valued me." 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 will 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 he wear on his arm And on his right eye! His arm will totally wither And his right eye will become blind."