1 O pen your doors, O Lebanon, That fire may devour your cedars.

افتَحْ أبوابَكَ يا لُبنانُ كَي تَأْكُلَ النّارُ أشْجارَ الأرْزِ.

2 W ail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, Because the mighty trees are ruined. Wail, O oaks of Bashan, For the thick forest has come down.

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

3 T here is the sound of wailing shepherds! For their glory is in ruins. There is the sound of roaring lions! For the pride of the Jordan is in ruins. Prophecy of the Shepherds

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

4 T hus says the Lord my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter,

هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ إلَهِي: «ارْعَ القَطِيعَ المُعَيَّنَ لِلذَّبْحِ.

5 w hose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt; those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich’; and their shepherds do not pity them.

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

6 F or I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord. “But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and I will not deliver them from their hand.”

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

7 S o I fed the flock for slaughter, in particular the poor of the flock. I took for myself two staffs: the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bonds; and I fed the flock.

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

8 I dismissed the three shepherds in one month. My soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

تَخَلَّصْتُ مِنْ ثَلاثَةِ رُعاةٍ فِي شَهْرٍ واحِدٍ، إذْ فَرَغَ صَبْرِي عَلَيهِمْ، وَهُمْ أيضاً أبغَضُونِي.

9 T hen I said, “I will not feed you. Let what is dying die, and what is perishing perish. Let those that are left eat each other’s flesh.”

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

10 A nd I took my staff, Beauty, and cut it in two, that I might break the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

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

11 S o it was broken on that day. Thus the poor of the flock, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the Lord.

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

12 T hen I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you, give me my wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

وَقُلْتُ 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.

13 A nd the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord for the potter.

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

14 T hen I cut in two my other staff, Bonds, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

ثُمَّ قَطَعْتُ عَصايَ الثّانِيَةَ المُسَمّاةَ ‹وِحدَةً› مُبطِلاً عَلاقَةَ الأُخُوَّةِ بَينَ يَهُوذا وَإسْرائِيلَ.»

15 A nd the Lord said to me, “Next, take for yourself the implements of a foolish shepherd.

وَقالَ اللهُ لِي: «خُذْ ثانِيَةً أدَواتِ راعٍ لا يَسْتَخدِمُها سِوَى راعٍ أحْمَقَ،

16 F or indeed I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are cut off, nor seek the young, nor heal those that are broken, nor feed those that still stand. But he will eat the flesh of the fat and tear their hooves in pieces.

لِأنِّي 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.»

17 “ Woe to the worthless shepherd, Who leaves the flock! A sword shall be against his arm And against his right eye; His arm shall completely wither, And his right eye shall be totally blinded.”

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