11: 2 Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the 77goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for 78the strong forest is come down.
77Or, glorious
78Or, fortified Massoreticmg reads the forest of the vintage is come down.
11: 3 A 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 laid waste.
11: 4 Thus said Jehovah my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;
11: 5 whose 79buyers slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them say, Blessed be Jehovah, for I am rich; and 80their own shepherds pity them not.
79Lit. acquirers
80Or, their shepherd pitieth them not.
11: 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
11: 7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, truly 81the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called 82Beauty, and the other I called 83Bands; and I fed the flock.
81Or, the most miserable of sheep. Also in vs. 11.
82Or, Graciousness,
83Or, Binders; or, Union;
11: 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
11: 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die; and 84that which is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let them that are left eat every one the flesh of another.
84Or, that which is lost, let it be lost;
11: 10 And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.
11: 11 And it was broken in that day; and 85thus the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew that it was the word of Jehovah.
85Or, the poor of the flock that gave heed unto me knew of a truth that it was the word of Jehovah.
11: 12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire 86thirty pieces of silver.
86The price of a bondservant. Ex 21:32.
11: 13 And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it 87unto the potter, the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them unto the potter, in the house of Jehovah.
87Aram. reads into the treasury,
11: 14 Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
11: 15 And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet again the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
11: 16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not 88visit those that are 89cut off, neither will seek 90those that are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that which 91is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces.
88Or, miss
89Or, lost,
90Or, the young,
91Hb. standeth;
11: 17 Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
