Zechariah 11:1-6

1Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a 1fire may feed on your 2cedars.2Wail, O 3cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the glorious trees have been destroyed; Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the 4impenetrable forest has come down.3There is a sound of the shepherds’ 5wail, For their glory is ruined; There is a 6sound of the young lions’ roar, For the 7pride of the Jordan is ruined.

4Thus says the Lord my God, “Pasture the flock doomed to 8slaughter. 5Those who buy them slay them and 9go 10unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for 11I have become rich!’ And their 12own shepherds have no pity on them. 6For I will 13no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will 14cause the men to 15fall, each into another’s 16power and into the 17power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will 18not deliver them from their 19power.”