ECB(i)
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THE RAVAGE OF LEBANON
Open your doors, O Lebanon, and fire consumes among your cedars. 2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar falls; because the mighty are ravaged! Howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the crop topples! 3 A voice of howling of the tenders; for their mighty are ravaged! A voice of the roaring of whelps; for the pomp of Yarden is ravaged. 4 Thus says Yah Veh my Elohim: Tend the flock of the slaughter; 5 whose chattelers slaughter them, and they guilt not: and they who sell them say, Blessed - Yah Veh; for I enrich: and their own tenders spare them not. 6 For I spare the settlers of the land no more - an oracle of Yah Veh. And behold, I present humanity - each man to the hand of his friend and to the hand of his sovereign; and they crush the land: and from their hand I rescue them not: 7 and I tend the flock of slaughter - even you, O humble of the flock. And I take two staves to myself; the one I call Pleasantness and the one I call Bands: and I tend the flock. 8 And in one month, I chop off three tenders; and my soul loathes them, and their soul also loathes me. 9 Then I say, I tend you not: what dies, dies; and what is cut off, is cut off; and of them who survive, each woman eats the flesh of sister. 10 And I take my staff, Pleasantness, and cut it, to break the covenant I cut with all the people: 11 and I break it in that day: and thus the humble of the flock who guard me know it is the word of Yah Veh. 12 And I say to them, If good in your eyes, give me my hire; and if not, cease. - and they weigh for my hire thirty silver. 13 And Yah Veh says to me, Cast it to the former: - a mighty appraisal I am appraised by them. - and I take the thirty silver and cast them to the former in the house of Yah Veh. 14 Then I cut my second staff, Bands, to break the brotherhood between Yah Hudah and between Yisra El. 15 And Yah Veh says to me, Take to yourself again the instruments of a foolish tender: 16 for, behold, I raise a tender in the land, who neither visits the cut off, nor seeks the lad, nor heals the broken, nor sustains the stationed: and he eats the flesh of the fat and craunches their hoofs. 17 Ho to the idol tender who forsakes the flock! the sword is on his arm and on his right eye: his arm withers, and in dimming, his right eye dims.
THE RAVAGE OF LEBANON
Open your doors, O Lebanon, and fire consumes among your cedars. 2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar falls; because the mighty are ravaged! Howl, O you oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the crop topples! 3 A voice of howling of the tenders; for their mighty are ravaged! A voice of the roaring of whelps; for the pomp of Yarden is ravaged. 4 Thus says Yah Veh my Elohim: Tend the flock of the slaughter; 5 whose chattelers slaughter them, and they guilt not: and they who sell them say, Blessed - Yah Veh; for I enrich: and their own tenders spare them not. 6 For I spare the settlers of the land no more - an oracle of Yah Veh. And behold, I present humanity - each man to the hand of his friend and to the hand of his sovereign; and they crush the land: and from their hand I rescue them not: 7 and I tend the flock of slaughter - even you, O humble of the flock. And I take two staves to myself; the one I call Pleasantness and the one I call Bands: and I tend the flock. 8 And in one month, I chop off three tenders; and my soul loathes them, and their soul also loathes me. 9 Then I say, I tend you not: what dies, dies; and what is cut off, is cut off; and of them who survive, each woman eats the flesh of sister. 10 And I take my staff, Pleasantness, and cut it, to break the covenant I cut with all the people: 11 and I break it in that day: and thus the humble of the flock who guard me know it is the word of Yah Veh. 12 And I say to them, If good in your eyes, give me my hire; and if not, cease. - and they weigh for my hire thirty silver. 13 And Yah Veh says to me, Cast it to the former: - a mighty appraisal I am appraised by them. - and I take the thirty silver and cast them to the former in the house of Yah Veh. 14 Then I cut my second staff, Bands, to break the brotherhood between Yah Hudah and between Yisra El. 15 And Yah Veh says to me, Take to yourself again the instruments of a foolish tender: 16 for, behold, I raise a tender in the land, who neither visits the cut off, nor seeks the lad, nor heals the broken, nor sustains the stationed: and he eats the flesh of the fat and craunches their hoofs. 17 Ho to the idol tender who forsakes the flock! the sword is on his arm and on his right eye: his arm withers, and in dimming, his right eye dims.