1Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars.

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

2Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are laid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut down.

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

3The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is laid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of the Jordan is spoiled.

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

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

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

5Which they that possessed, slew, and repented not, and they sold them, saying: Blessed be the Lord, we are become rich: and their shepherds spared them not.

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

6And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land, and I will not deliver it out of their hand.

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

7And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the flock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock.

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

8And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

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

9And I said: I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die: and that which is cut off, let it be cut off: and let the rest devour every one the flesh of his neighbour.

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

10And I took my rod that was called Beauty, and I cut it asunder to make void my covenant, which I had made with all people.

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

11And it was made void in that day: and so the poor of the flock that keep for me, understood that it is the word of the Lord.

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

12And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my wages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

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

13And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome price, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary.

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

14And I cut off my second rod that was called a Cord, that I might break the brotherhood between Juda and Israel.

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

15And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

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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 shall not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of the fat ones, and break their hoofs.

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

17O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

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