1 Abre, ó Líbano, as tuas portas para que o fogo consuma os teus cedros.

2 Geme, ó cipreste, porque o cedro caiu, porque os mais poderosos são destruídos; gemei, ó carvalhos de Basã, porque o bosque forte é derrubado.

3 Voz de uivo dos pastores! porque a sua glória é destruída; voz de bramido dos filhos de leões, porque foi destruída a soberba do Jordão.

4 Assim diz o Senhor meu Deus: Apascenta as ovelhas da matança,

5 Cujos possuidores as matam, e não se têm por culpados; e cujos vendedores dizem: Louvado seja o Senhor, porque tenho enriquecido; e os seus pastores não têm piedade delas.

6 Certamente não terei mais piedade dos moradores desta terra, diz o Senhor; mas, eis que entregarei os homens cada um na mão do seu próximo e na mão do seu rei; eles ferirão a terra, e eu não os livrarei da sua mão.

7 Eu, pois, apascentei as ovelhas da matança, as pobres ovelhas do rebanho. Tomei para mim duas varas: a uma chamei Graça, e à outra chamei União; e apascentei as ovelhas.

8 E destruí os três pastores num mês; porque a minha alma se impacientou deles, e também a alma deles se enfastiou de mim.

9 E eu disse: Não vos apascentarei mais; o que morrer, morra; e o que for destruído, seja destruído; e as que restarem comam cada uma a carne da outra.

10 E tomei a minha vara Graça, e a quebrei, para desfazer a minha aliança, que tinha estabelecido com todos estes povos.

11 E foi desfeita naquele dia; e assim conheceram os pobres do rebanho, que me respeitavam, que isto era palavra do Senhor.

12 Porque eu lhes disse: Se parece bem aos vossos olhos, dai-me o meu salário e, se não, deixai-o. E pesaram o meu salário, trinta moedas de prata.

13 O Senhor, pois, disse-me: Arroja isso ao oleiro, esse belo preço em que fui avaliado por eles. E tomei as trinta moedas de prata, e as arrojei ao oleiro, na casa do Senhor.

14 Então quebrei a minha segunda vara União, para romper a irmandade entre Judá e Israel.

15 E o Senhor disse-me: Toma ainda para ti o instrumento de um pastor insensato.

16 Porque, eis que suscitarei um pastor na terra, que não cuidará das que estão perecendo, não buscará a pequena, e não curará a ferida, nem apascentará a sã; mas comerá a carne da gorda, e lhe despedaçará as unhas.

17 Ai do pastor inútil, que abandona o rebanho! A espada cairá sobre o seu braço e sobre o seu olho direito; e o seu braço completamente se secará, e o seu olho direito completamente se escurecerá.

1 Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.

2 Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.

3 The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

5 Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

6 For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

7 So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock.

8 And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

9 And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

10 And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.

11 And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.

12 And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.

13 And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.

14 Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.

15 And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

16 For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

17 A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.