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Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars.
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Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the impenetrableforest has comedown.
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"Those whobuy them slay them and gounpunished*, and each of those who sell them says, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I have becomerich!' And their own shepherdshavenopity on them.
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"For I will nolongerhavepity on the inhabitants of the land," declares the LORD; "but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another'spower and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their power."
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So I pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, hence the afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself twostaffs: the one I calledFavor and the other I calledUnion; so I pastured the flock.
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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 lefteatoneanother'sflesh."
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Then the LORDsaid to me, "Throw it to the potter, that magnificentprice 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.
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"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 tearoff their hoofs.
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"Woe to the worthlessshepherd Who leaves the flock! A sword will be on his arm And on his righteye! His arm will be totallywithered And his righteye will be blind."