The Doomed Flock 1 ULT Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour among your cedars! BSB BSB: Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
2 ULT Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the majestic ones have been devastated! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the fortified forest has gone down. BSB BSB: Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!
3 ULT The voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is devastated! The voice of the roaring of the young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is devastated! BSB BSB: Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
4 ULT Thus says Yahweh my God,“Shepherd the flock of slaughter BSB BSB: This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,
5 ULT which the buyers kill and are not held guilty, and the ones selling them say,‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I have become rich!’ And their shepherds do not pity them. BSB BSB: whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
6 ULT Certainly I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land”— the declaration of Yahweh—“and behold, I am causing mankind to fall, each man, in the hand of his neighbor and in the hand of his king, and they will crush the land, and I will not deliver{ them} from their hand.” BSB BSB: For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”
7 ULT And I shepherded the flock of slaughter, therefore the poor of the flock. And I took for myself two staffs. For the one I called“Favor,” and for the other I called“Union,” and I shepherded the flock. BSB BSB: So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
8 ULT And I destroyed the three shepherds in one month. And my soul became short with them, and also their soul loathed me. BSB BSB: And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
9 ULT And I said,“I will not shepherd you. The one dying, let it die, and the one being destroyed, let it be destroyed, and the ones remaining, let them eat, each one, the flesh of her companion.” BSB BSB: Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”
Thirty Pieces of Silver (Matthew 27:3–10)
10 ULT And I took my staff Favor, and I chopped it up, to break my covenant that I had cut with all the peoples. BSB BSB: Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
11 ULT And it was broken on that day, and so the poor ones of the flock, the ones watching me, knew that it was the word of Yahweh. BSB BSB: It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
12 ULT And I said to them,“If it is good in your eyes, give my wages; but if not, refrain.” And they weighed out my wages, thirty{ pieces} of silver. BSB BSB: Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
13 ULT And Yahweh said to me,“Throw it to the potter, the magnificence of the price at which I was valued by them!” And I took the thirty{ pieces} of silver and threw it{ into} the house of Yahweh, to the potter. BSB BSB: And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
14 ULT And I chopped up my second staff, Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and between Israel. BSB BSB: Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 ULT And Yahweh said to me,“Again, take for yourself the equipment of a foolish shepherd, BSB BSB: And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
16 ULT for behold, I am raising up a shepherd in the land. He will not attend to the ones being destroyed; he will not seek the scattered one; and he will not heal the broken one; he will not sustain the one standing; but he will eat the flesh of the fat one, and he will tear off their hooves. BSB BSB: For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
17 ULT Woe, worthless shepherd, the one forsaking the flock! A sword against his arm and against his right eye! His arm withering will wither, and his right eye dimming will dim!” BSB BSB: Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”