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.

1 Liban, ouvre tes portes, et que le feu dévore tes cèdres!

2 Cyprès, gémissez! Car le cèdre est tombé, car les plus magnifiques sont ravagés. Gémissez, chênes de Bassan! Car la forêt inaccessible est abattue.

3 On entend gémir les pasteurs, car leur magnificence est dévastée; on entend rugir les lionceaux, car la parure du Jourdain est dévastée.

4 Ainsi a dit l'Éternel mon Dieu: Pais les brebis destinées à la boucherie,

6 Car je n'épargnerai plus les habitants du pays, dit l'Éternel. Et voici, je livrerai les hommes aux mains les uns des autres et aux mains de leur roi; ils écraseront le pays, et je ne délivrerai pas de leurs mains.

7 Je me mis donc à paître les brebis destinées à la boucherie, assurément les plus misérables du troupeau. Et je pris deux houlettes dont j'appelai l'une Grâce, et l'autre Servitude, et je fis paître les brebis.

8 Et je retranchai trois bergers en un seul mois; car mon âme s'était fatiguée d'eux, et leur âme aussi s'était dégoûtée de moi.

9 Et je dis: Je ne vous paîtrai plus! Que la brebis mourante, meure; que celle qui doit périr, périsse, et que celles qui restent, dévorent la chair l'une de l'autre.

10 Et je pris ma houlette Grâce, et je la brisai pour rompre mon alliance, que j'avais traitée avec tous les peuples.

11 Elle fut rompue en ce jour-là, et ainsi les plus misérables du troupeau, qui regardaient à moi, reconnurent que c'était la Parole de l’Éternel.

12 Et je leur dis: Si vous le trouvez bon, donnez-moi mon salaire; sinon, ne le donnez pas. Et ils pesèrent pour mon salaire trente pièces d'argent.

13 Et l'Éternel me dit: Jette-le au potier, ce prix honorable auquel j'ai été estimé par eux! Et je pris les trente pièces d'argent, et les jetai dans la maison de l'Éternel, pour le potier.

14 Puis je brisai ma seconde houlette, Servitude, pour rompre la fraternité entre Juda et Israël.

15 Puis l'Éternel me dit: Prends encore les instruments d'un pasteur insensé.

16 Car voici, je vais susciter dans le pays un pasteur qui ne visitera pas celles qui périssent, qui ne cherchera pas celle qui s'égare, qui ne guérira pas la blessée, et ne nourrira pas celle qui est saine; mais il mangera la chair des plus grasses, et il rompra leurs ongles.

17 Malheur au pasteur de néant, qui abandonne le troupeau! Que l'épée tombe sur son bras et sur son oeil droit! Que son bras se dessèche, et que son oeil droit s'éteigne entièrement!