¹Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.

¹Libane, atidaryk savo vartus, ir ugnis tesuėda tavo kedrus!

²Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

²Verk, kiparise, nes kedras krito, didingi medžiai sunaikinti! Verkite Bašano ąžuolai, nes iškirsta neįžengiamoji giria!

³A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

³Klausyk­piemenų šauksmas! Sunaikintas jų išdidumas. Klausyk! Tai jaunų liūtų riaumojimas, nes sunaikinta Jordano didybė.

⁴Thus says Yahweh my God: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

⁴Viešpats, mano Dievas, man kalbėjo: “Ganyk pjovimui skirtas avis.

⁵Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

⁵Pirkliai nesigailėdami pjauna jas. Pirkliai džiaugiasi, nes pralobo. Jų ganytojai taip pat nesigaili jų.

⁶For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”

⁶Aš irgi nebesigailėsiu krašto gyventojų. Aš pats atiduosiu kiekvieną į jo valdovo rankas; jie naikins šalį, o Aš jų negelbėsiu”.

⁷So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor,” and the other I called “Union,” and I fed the flock.

⁷Taip aš pradėjau ganyti pjovimui skirtas avis. Aš paėmiau dvi lazdeles: vieną pavadinau Malone, o kitą­Sąjunga.

⁸I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

⁸Per vieną mėnesį aš atleidau tris piemenis. Mano siela bjaurėjosi jais ir jie bjaurėjosi manimi.

⁹Then I said, “I will not feed you. That which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let those who are left eat each other’s flesh.”

⁹Tada tariau: “Nebeganysiu jūsų. Kuri miršta, temiršta, kuri pražūva, tepražūva, o kurios išlieka, tegul ėda viena kitą!”

¹⁰I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

¹⁰Aš ėmiau lazdą Malonę ir ją sulaužiau, kad panaikinčiau savo sandorą su visomis tautomis.

¹¹It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was the word of Yahweh.

¹¹Tą pačią dieną ji buvo panaikinta. Avių pirkliai, kurie stebėjo mane, suprato, kad tai buvo Viešpaties žodis.

¹²I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

¹²Aš jiems tariau: “Jei jums atrodo teisinga, užmokėkite man, o jei ne­nemokėkite!” Jie pasvėrė mano užmokestį­trisdešimt sidabrinių.

¹³Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the house of Yahweh.

¹³Viešpats tarė man: “Mesk juos į šventyklos iždą, tą aukštą kainą, kuria jie mane įvertino!” Aš įmečiau tuos trisdešimt sidabrinių į šventyklos iždą.

¹⁴Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

¹⁴Po to sulaužiau antrąją lazdą Sąjungą ir tuo nutraukiau brolystę tarp Judo ir Izraelio.

¹⁵Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

¹⁵Viešpats tarė man: “Imk dar kartą kvailo ganytojo reikmenis.

¹⁶For, behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off, neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.

¹⁶Aš paskiriu krašte ganytoją, kuris paklydusia nesirūpins, žūstančios neieškos, sužeistos negydys ir sveikos neganys, tik ės riebiųjų mėsą ir jų nagus nuplėš.

¹⁷Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

¹⁷Vargas blogam ganytojui, kuris palieka avis! Kardas jo rankai ir dešinei akiai. Jo ranka nudžius ir dešinioji akis apaks!”