1 ا فتَحْ أبوابَكَ يا لُبنانُ كَي تَأْكُلَ النّارُ أشْجارَ الأرْزِ.

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

2 ن ُحْ يا شَجَرَ السَّرْوِ، لِأنَّ الأرْزَ سَقَطَ، لِأنَّ الأشْجارَ العَظِيمَةَ خَرُبَتْ. نُوحِي يا أشْجارَ بَلُّوطِ باشانَ، لِأنَّ الغابَةَ الكَثِيفَةِ سَقَطَتْ.

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

3 ا سمَعُوا صَوْتِ نُواحِ الرُّعاةِ، لِأنَّ مَجدَهُمْ قَدْ خَرُبَ. اسمَعُوا زَمجَرَةَ الأُسُودِ، لِأنَّ غابَةَ نَهْرِ الأُردُنِّ قَدْ خَرُبَتْ.

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 ruined.

4 ه َذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ إلَهِي: «ارْعَ القَطِيعَ المُعَيَّنَ لِلذَّبْحِ.

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

5 ا لَّذِينَ يَشتَرُونَهُمْ يَذْبَحُونَهُمْ وَلا يُعاقَبُونَ. وَالَّذِينَ يَبِيعُونَهُمْ يَقُولُونَ: ‹صِرْتُ غَنِيّاً! لِذا، ليكُن الله مُبارَكاً› وَرُعاتُهُمْ لا يَشْعُرُونَ بِأيَّةِ شَفَقَةٍ نَحوَهُمْ.

Their 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.

6 ل ِذَلِكَ لَنْ أعُودَ أرحَمَ ساكِنِي يَهُوذا،» يَقُولُ اللهُ. «سَأضَعُ كُلَّ واحِدٍ مِنْهُمْ تَحتَ سُلْطانِ جارِهِ وَمَلِكِهِ. سَيُخَرِّبُونَ الأرْضَ وَلَنْ أُنقِذَ أحَداً مِنْ يَدِهِمْ وَسُلْطانِهِمْ.»

For 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.”

7 و َلِذا رَعَيتُ الغَنَمَ الَّذِي يُرَبَّى بِقَصْدِ الذَّبْحِ. ثُمَّ أخَذْتُ لِنَفسِي عَصَوَينِ. دَعَوْتُ إحداهُما «نِعْمَةً،» وَدَعَوْتُ الأُخرَى «وِحْدَةً،» وَرَعَيْتُ الغَنَمَ بِالعَصَوَيْنِ.

So 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.

8 ت َخَلَّصْتُ مِنْ ثَلاثَةِ رُعاةٍ فِي شَهْرٍ واحِدٍ، إذْ فَرَغَ صَبْرِي عَلَيهِمْ، وَهُمْ أيضاً أبغَضُونِي.

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

9 و َقُلْتُ: «لَنْ أرعاكُمْ ثانِيَةً. فَلْيَمُتِ المُحتَضِرُ، وَلْيَهلَكِ الهالِكُ، وَلْيَأْكُلِ الباقُونَ بَعضَهُمْ لَحمَ بَعْضٍ.»

Then 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.”

10 و َأخَذْتُ عَصايَ المُسَمّاةَ «نِعْمَةً» وَكَسَرْتُها لِأُظْهِرَ أنِّي أكسِرُ عَهْدِي الَّذِي عَمِلْتُهُ مَعَ كُلِّ الشُّعُوبِ.

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

11 ف َانكَسَرَ فِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ. وَعَرَفَ تُجّارُ الغَنَمِ الَّذِينَ كانُوا يُراقِبُونَنِي أنَّ هَذِهِ كانَتْ نُبُوَّةً مِنَ اللهِ.

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

12 و َقُلْتُ لَهُمْ: «إنْ حَسُنَ الأمْرُ فِي عُيُونِكُمْ فَادفَعُوا لِي أُجرَتِي. لَكِنْ إنْ لَمْ يَحسُنِ الأمْرُ فِي عُيُونِكُمْ فَلا تَدفَعُوا لِي.» فَدَفَعُوا إلَيَّ ثَلاثِينَ مِثْقالاً مِنَ الفِضَّةِ كَأجرٍ لِي.

I 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.

13 و َقالَ لِيَ اللهُ أنْ أُلقيَ فِي خَزِينَةِ الهَيكَلِ ذَلِكَ المَبلَغَ العَظِيمَ الَّذِي كافَأُونِي بِه! فَألقَيتُ الثَّلاثِينَ مِثْقالاً مِنَ الفِضَّةِ إلَى الخَزِينَةِ فِي بَيتِ اللهِ.

Yahweh 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 Yahweh’s house.

14 ث ُمَّ قَطَعْتُ عَصايَ الثّانِيَةَ المُسَمّاةَ ‹وِحدَةً› مُبطِلاً عَلاقَةَ الأُخُوَّةِ بَينَ يَهُوذا وَإسْرائِيلَ.»

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

15 و َقالَ اللهُ لِي: «خُذْ ثانِيَةً أدَواتِ راعٍ لا يَسْتَخدِمُها سِوَى راعٍ أحْمَقَ،

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

16 ل ِأنِّي سَأُعَيِّنُ فِي الأرْضِ راعِياً لا يَهْتَمُّ بِالخَرُوفِ التّائِهِ، وَلا يَبْحَثُ عَنِ الرَّضِيعِ. لا يُضَمِّدُ الجَرِيحَ، وَلا يَسْنِدُ الخِرافَ الضَّعِيفَةَ. يَأْكُلُ لَحْمَ الخِرافِ السَّمِينَةِ، فَلا يُبقِي سِوَى حَوافِرِها.»

For, 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.

17 ي ا راعِيَّ الأحْمَقُ الَّذِي يَترُكُ القَطِيعَ! لِيَضْرِبْ سَيفٌ ذِراعَهُ وَعَينَهُ اليُمْنَى! لِيَذبُلْ ذِراعُهُ الأيمَنُ تَماماً، وَلتَعْمَ عَينُهُ اليُمْنَى تَماماً!

Woe 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!”