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| 11:1 | Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars. |
| 11:2 | Howl, O fir, for fallen hath the cedar, For their honourable ones were destroyed, Howl, ye oaks of Bashan, For come down hath the fenced forest, |
| 11:3 | A voice of the howling of the shepherds! For destroyed was their robe of honour, A voice of the roaring of young lions! For destroyed was the excellency of Jordan. |
| 11:4 | Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter, |
| 11:5 | Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them. |
| 11:6 | For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.' |
| 11:7 | And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock. |
| 11:8 | And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me. |
| 11:9 | And I say, `I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.' |
| 11:10 | And I take My staff Pleasantness, and cut it asunder, to make void My covenant that I had made with all the peoples: |
| 11:11 | and it is broken in that day, and know well do the afflicted of the flock who are observing me, that it `is' a word of Jehovah. |
| 11:12 | And I say unto them: `If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, forbear;' and they weigh out my hire -- thirty silverlings. |
| 11:13 | And Jehovah saith unto me, `Cast it unto the potter;' the goodly price that I have been prized at by them, and I take the thirty silverlings, and cast them `to' the house of Jehovah, unto the potter. |
| 11:14 | And I cut asunder my second staff, Bands, to break the unity between Judah and Israel. |
| 11:15 | And Jehovah saith unto me, `Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd. |
| 11:16 | For lo, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, The cut off he doth not inspect, The shaken off he doth not seek, And the broken he doth not heal, The standing he doth not sustain, And the flesh of the fat he doth eat, And their hoofs he doth break off. |
| 11:17 | Wo `to' the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword `is' on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!' |
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| 11:1 | Open thy dores (o Libanus) that the fyre maye consume thy Cedre trees. |
| 11:2 | Howle ye Fyrre trees, for the Cedre is falle, yee all ye proude are waisted awaye Howle (o ye oke trees of Baasan) for ye mightie stronge wod is cut downe. |
| 11:3 | Men maye heare the shepherdes mourne, for their glory is destroyed. Me maye heare the lyons whelpes roare, for the pryde off Iordane is waisted awaye. |
| 11:4 | Thus sayeth the LORDE my God: Fede the shepe of ye slaughter, |
| 11:5 | which shalbe slayne of those that possesse them: yet they take it for no synne, but they yt sell the, saye: The LORDE be thanked, I am rich: Yee their owne shepherdes spare them not. |
| 11:6 | Therfore wil I nomore spare those that dwell in the londe (sayeth the LORDE) but lo, I will delyuer the people, euery man in to his neghbours honde, and in to the hode of his kynge: that they maye smyte the londe, and out off their hondes wil not I delyuer them. |
| 11:7 | I myself fedde ye slaughter shepe (a poore flocke verely) ad toke vnto me two staues: the one I called louynge mekenesse, the other I called wo, and so I kepte the shepe. |
| 11:8 | Thre shepherdes destroyed I in one moneth, for I might not awaye wt them, nether had they eny delyte in me. |
| 11:9 | Then sayde I: I will fede you nomore, the thinge that dyeth, let it dye: and that wil perishe, let it perish, & let the renaunt eate, euery one the flesh of his neghboure. |
| 11:10 | I toke also my louynge meke staff, ad brake it, that I might disanull the conuenaunt, which I made with all people, |
| 11:11 | And so it was broken in that daye. Then the poore symple shepe that had a respecte vnto me, knewe therby, that it was the worde of the LORDE. |
| 11:12 | And I sayde vnto them: yff ye thynke it good, brynge hither my pryce: yf no, then leaue. So they wayed downe xxx. syluer pens, ye value that I was prysed at. |
| 11:13 | And the LORDE sayde vnto me: cast it vnto the potter (a goodly pryce for me to be valued at of them) and I toke the xxx. syluers pens, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORDE. |
| 11:14 | Then brake I my other staff also (namely wo) that I might lowse the brotherheade betwixte Iuda and Israel. |
| 11:15 | And the LORDE sayde vnto me: Take to the also the staff off a foolish shepherde: |
| 11:16 | for lo, I will rayse vp a shepherde in the londe, which shall not seke after the thinges that be lost, ner care for soch as go astraye: he shall not heale the wounded, he shal not norish the thinge that is whole: but he shall eate the flesh off soch as be fat, and teare their clawes in peces. |
| 11:17 | O Idols shepherde, that leaueth the flocke. The swerde shal come vpon his arme and vpon his right eye. His arme shalbe clene dried vp, and his right eye shalbe sore blynded. |
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