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

¹Zec 11;1 Odpri vrata svoja, o Libanon, da požre ogenj tvoje cedre!

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.

²Tuli, o jelka, ker je padla cedra, ker so mogočni opustošeni! Tulite, hrastje v Basanu, ker je neprodirni gozd posekan!

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.

³Glasno tulijo pastirji, ker je njih veličastvo opustošeno; glasi se rjovenje mladih levov, ker pokončana je ošabnost Jordanova.

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

⁴Tako je rekel GOSPOD, Bog moj: Pasi ovce, ki so namenjene v zakol,

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.

⁵katerih gospodarji jih moré, pa si ne štejejo v greh; kateri jih pa prodajajo, govore: Hvaljen bodi GOSPOD, kajti obogatim! in njih pastirji jim ne prizanašajo.

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.”

⁶Kajti ne bom več prizanašal prebivalcem dežele, govori GOSPOD; temuč glej, jaz izročim ljudi, vsakega v pest bližnjemu njegovemu in kralju njegovemu v pest; in razbijejo deželo, in iz njih pesti jih ne otmem.

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.

⁷In pasel sem ovce namenjene v zakol, torej najmedlejše izmed črede; in vzel sem si dve palici, eno sem imenoval Ljubeznivost, drugo pa Združenje, in pasel sem ovce.

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

⁸In odpravil sem tri pastirje v enem mesecu. A duša moja se je vznevoljila zaradi njih, pa tudi njih duši sem se zgnusil.

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.”

⁹Tedaj sem rekel: Ne bom vas pasel več; kar umira, naj umre, in kar gine, naj pogine, ostali pa naj žro sleherni svojega bližnjega meso.

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

¹⁰In vzel sem palico svojo, Ljubeznivost, in jo zlomil, da bi raztrgal zavezo svojo, ki sem jo bil sklenil z vsemi ljudstvi.

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.

¹¹In bila je raztrgana tisti dan; in tako so spoznali najmedlejši iz črede, ki so pazile name, da je bila beseda GOSPODOVA.

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.

¹²In sem jim dejal: Če se vam dobro zdi, dajte mi plačilo moje, če pa ne, pustite. Tedaj so odtehtali meni v plačilo trideset srebrnikov.

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.

¹³Nato mi veli GOSPOD: Vrzi jih lončarju, tisto lepo ceno, s katero so me cenili. In vzel sem trideset srebrnikov in jih vrgel v hišo GOSPODOVO, lončarju.

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

¹⁴Nato sem zlomil drugo palico svojo, Združenje, da razdružim bratovščino med Judo in Izraelom.

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

¹⁵Potem mi veli GOSPOD: Vzemi si še neumnega pastirja pripravo.

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.

¹⁶Kajti glej, jaz obudim pastirja v deželi, ki ne bo skrbel za tiste, ki ginejo, ne bo iskal razkropljenih, ne bo zdravil ranjenih, tudi zdravega ne bo redil, temuč bo jedel meso pitanih in trgal njih parklje.Gorje ničvrednemu pastirju, ki zapušča čredo! Meč pridi nad njegovo ramo in nad desno oko njegovo! Rama njegova usahne docela in desno oko mu oslepi.

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!”

¹⁷Gorje ničvrednemu pastirju, ki zapušča čredo! Meč pridi nad njegovo ramo in nad desno oko njegovo! Rama njegova usahne docela in desno oko mu oslepi.