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For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and will make you as the sword of a mighty man.

And Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for [they shall be as] the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

For the talismans have spoken vanity, and the fortune-tellers have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

My anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for Yahweh of hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his goodly horse in the battle.

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they shall increase as they have increased.

I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them.

Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.

whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and those that sell them say, Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich; and their own shepherds don't pity them.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh; but, look, I will deliver man, every man into his neighbor'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.

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

And I said to them, If you think good, give me my wages; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my wages thirty [pieces] of silver.

For, look, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those that are cut off, neither will seek that which remains behind, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat [sheep], and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be critically wounded; and all the nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.

And I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begot him shall say to him, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of Yahweh; and his father and his mother that begot him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for man has acquired me from my youth.