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Chapter 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. |
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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. |
