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Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a ^(a)fire may feed on your ^(b)cedars.

Wail, O ^[a]cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the ^[b]impenetrable forest has come down.

There is a sound of the shepherds' ^(c)wail, For their glory is ruined; There is a ^(d)sound of the young lions' roar, For the ^[c]pride of the Jordan is ruined.

Thus says the Lord my God, "Pasture the flock doomed to ^(e)slaughter.

Those who buy them slay them and ^[d]go ^(f)unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord , for ^(g)I have become rich!' And their ^(h)own shepherds have no pity on them.

For I will ⁽ⁱ⁾no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land," declares the Lord ; "but behold, I will ^(j)cause the men to ^[e]fall, each into another's ^[f]power and into the ^[g]power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will ^(k)not deliver them from their ^[h]power."

So I ^(l)pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, ^[i]hence the ^(m)afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two ⁽ⁿ⁾staffs: the one I called ^[j](o)Favor and the other I called ^[k](p)Union; so I pastured the flock.

Then I annihilated the three shepherds in ^(q)one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also ^[l]was weary of me.