1Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume your cedars.

stylus

Jeremiah 22:6, Jeremiah 22:7, Jeremiah 22:6, Jeremiah 22:7, Jeremiah 22:23

2Howl, you fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the magnificent have been devastated. Howl, you oaks of Bashan, because the secure forest passage has been cut down.

stylus

Isaiah 32:15, Isaiah 32:19, Amos 6:1, Isaiah 2:12, Isaiah 2:17

3The voice of the howling of the shepherds: for their magnificence has been devastated. The voice of the roaring of the lions: because the arrogance of the Jordan has been devastated.

stylus

Jeremiah 50:44, Jeremiah 50:44, Jeremiah 25:34, Jeremiah 25:36, Jeremiah 25:34

4Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,

stylus

Zechariah 11:7, Zechariah 11:7, Matthew 23:37, Matthew 23:37, Micah 5:4

5which those who possessed them cut down, and they did not feel sorrow, and they sold them, saying: “Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy. Even their shepherds did not spare them.”

stylus

Jeremiah 50:7, Jeremiah 50:7, 1 Timothy 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:10, Hosea 12:8

6And so, I will no longer spare the inhabitants upon the earth, says the Lord. Behold, I will deliver men, each one into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king. And they will cut down the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.

stylus

Jeremiah 13:14, Jeremiah 13:14, Matthew 22:7, Isaiah 9:19, Isaiah 9:21

7And I will pasture the flock of the slaughter, because of this, O poor of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs: the one I called Handsome, and the other I called Rope, and I pastured the flock.

stylus

Zechariah 11:14, Isaiah 11:4, Zechariah 11:4, Zechariah 11:14, Isaiah 11:4

8And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning me.

stylus

Isaiah 49:7, John 15:18, Matthew 23:34, Matthew 23:36, John 7:7

9And I said: I will not pasture you. Whatever dies, let it die. And whatever is cut down, let it be cut down. And let the rest of them devour, each one the flesh of his neighbor.

stylus

Jeremiah 43:11, Matthew 13:10, Matthew 13:11, Jeremiah 43:11, Matthew 13:10

10And I took my staff, which was called Handsome, and I tore it apart, so as to invalidate my pact, which I had struck with all of the people.

stylus

Zechariah 11:7, Zechariah 11:7, Psalms 89:39, Psalms 89:39, Jeremiah 31:31

11And it became invalid in that day. And so they understood, just like the poor of the flock who stay close to me, that this is the word of the Lord.

stylus

Zephaniah 3:12, Zephaniah 3:12, Luke 7:22, Romans 11:7, Romans 11:12

12And I said to them: If it is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins.

stylus

Matthew 26:15, Matthew 26:15, Exodus 21:32, Exodus 21:32, Mark 14:10

13And the Lord said to me: Cast it towards the statuary, the handsome price at which I have been valued by them. And I took the thirty silver coins, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, towards the statuary.

stylus

Matthew 27:3, Matthew 27:10, Matthew 27:3, Matthew 27:10, Acts 1:18

14And I cut short my second staff, which was called Rope, so that I might dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

stylus

Isaiah 9:21, Isaiah 9:21, Zechariah 11:9, Acts 23:7, Acts 23:10

15And the Lord said to me: Still they are to you the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

stylus

Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 6:12, Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 6:12, Lamentations 2:14

16For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs.

stylus

Jeremiah 23:2, Ezekiel 34:2, Ezekiel 34:6, Jeremiah 23:2, Ezekiel 34:2

17O shepherd and idol, abandoning the flock, with a sword upon his arm and over his right eye: his arm will be withered by drought, and his right eye will be obscured by darkness.

stylus

Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 23:1, Ezekiel 13:3, Ezekiel 13:3, 1 Corinthians 8:4