1Open thy doors, O Lebanon, That the fire may devour thy cedars!

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

2Howl, O cypress, for the cedar falleth! For the lofty ones are destroyed! Howl, O ye oaks of Bashan, For the high forest is come down!

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

3Hark! the voice of the howling of the shepherds, Because their glory is destroyed! The voice of the roaring of young lions, Because the pride of Jordan is destroyed!

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

4Thus said Jehovah, my God: Feed thou the flock of slaughter,

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

5Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty, And which they who sell say, "Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich!" And whose shepherds spare them not.

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

6For I will no longer spare The inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; But, behold, I will deliver the men Every one into the hand of his neighbor, And into the hand of his king; And they shall smite the land, And I will not deliver out of their hand.

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

7So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly a miserable flock. And I took to me two crooks; the one I called Favor, and the other I called Bands; 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; for I was weary of them, and they also abhorred me.

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

9Then I said, I will not feed you; that which dieth, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat the flesh of one another.

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

10And I took my staff Favor, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the nations.

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

11And it was broken in that day; and so the poor of the flock, who had regard to me, knew that it was the word of Jehovah.

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

12Then I said to them, If it seem good in your eyes, give me my wages; if not, keep them. And they weighed for my wages thirty shekels of silver.

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

13And Jehovah said to me, Cast it into the treasury, the goodly price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver, and cast them into the house of Jehovah, into the treasury.

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

14Then I broke my other crook, even Bands, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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

15And Jehovah 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 lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land Who shall not care for those that are perishing, Nor seek that which is gone astray, Nor heal that which is wounded, Nor support that which cannot go; But he shall eat the flesh of the fat, And consume it even to the hoofs.

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

17Woe to the foolish shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword is upon his arm, and upon his right eye; His arm shall surely be withered, And his right eye shall surely be darkened!

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