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Open your doors, O Lebanon,
so that fire may devour your cedars!
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Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,
for the glorious trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks of Bashan,
for the thick forest has been felled!
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Listen, the wail of the shepherds,
for their glory is despoiled!
Listen, the roar of the lions,
for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed!
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Thus said the
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So, on behalf of the sheep merchants, I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter. I took two staffs; one I named Favor, the other I named Unity, and I tended the sheep.
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In one month I disposed of the three shepherds, for I had become impatient with them, and they also detested me.
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So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another!"
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I took my staff Favor and broke it, annulling the covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
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So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep merchants, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the
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Then the
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Oh, my worthless shepherd,
who deserts the flock!
May the sword strike his arm
and his right eye!
Let his arm be completely withered,
his right eye utterly blinded!