The Doomed Flock

11 Open your doors, Lebanon,

⁴ This is what the Lord my God says: “Pasture the flock doomed to ^(E)slaughter. ⁵ Those who buy them slaughter them and ^[c]go ^(F)unpunished, and each of those who sell them says, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for ^(G)I have become rich!’ And their ^(H)own shepherds have no compassion for them. ⁶ For I will ^(I)no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will ^(J)let the people fall, each into another’s ^[d]power and into the ^[e]power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will ^(K)not rescue them from their ^[f]power.”

⁷ So I ^(L)pastured the flock doomed to slaughter, ^[g]therefore also the ^(M)afflicted of the flock. And I took for myself two ^(N)staffs: the one I called ^[h](O)Favor, and the other I called ^(P)Union; so I pastured the flock. ⁸ Then I did away with the three shepherds in ^(Q)one month, for my soul was impatient with them, and their soul also ^[i]was tired of me. ⁹ Then I said, “I will not pasture you. What is to ^(R)die, ^[j]let it die, and what is to perish, ^[k]let it perish; and ^[l]let those who are left eat one another’s flesh.” ¹⁰ And I took my staff ^[m](S)Favor and cut it in pieces, to ^[n](T)break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples. ¹¹ So it was ^[o]broken on that day, and ^[p]so the ^(U)afflicted of the flock who were watching me realized that it was the word of the Lord. ¹² And I said to them, “If it is good in your sight, give me my ^(V)wages; but if not, ^[q]never mind!” So they weighed out ^(W)thirty shekels of silver as my wages. ¹³ Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the ^(X)potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord. ¹⁴ Then I cut in pieces my second staff ^(Y)Union, to ^(Z)break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

¹⁵ And the Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a ^(AA)foolish shepherd. ¹⁶ For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will ^(AB)not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or provide for the one who is exhausted, but will ^(AC)devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

Jesus Comforts His Disciples

14 “^(A)Do not let your heart be troubled; ^[a]believe in God, believe also in Me. ² In My Father’s house are many ^[b]rooms; if that were not so, ^[c]I would have told you, because ^(B)I am going there to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, ^(C)I am coming again and will take you to Myself, so that ^(D)where I am, there you also will be. ⁴ And you know the way where I am going.” ^5 (E)Thomas *said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going; how do we know the way?” ⁶ Jesus *said to him, “I am ^(F)the way, and ^(G)the truth, and ^(H)the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.

Oneness with the Father

^7 (I)If you ^[d]had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you ^(J)know Him, and have ^(K)seen Him.”

^8 (L)Philip *said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” ⁹ Jesus *said to him, “Have I been with ^[e]you for so long a time, and yet ^[f]you have not come to know Me, Philip? ^(M)The one who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that ^(N)I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? ^(O)The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own, but the Father, as He remains in Me, does His works. ¹¹ Believe Me that ^(P)I am in the Father and the Father is in Me; otherwise ^(Q)believe because of the works themselves. ¹² Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and ^(R)greater works than these he will do; because ^(S)I am going to the Father. ¹³ And ^(T)whatever you ask in My name, this I will do, so that ^(U)the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask Me anything ^(V)in My name, I will do it.

¹⁵ “^(W)If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

The Holy Spirit

¹⁶ I will ask the Father, and He will give you another ^[g](X)Helper, so that He may be with you forever; ¹⁷ the Helper is ^(Y)the Spirit of truth, ^(Z)whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; ^(AA)I am coming to you. ^19 [h](AB)After a little while, ^(AC)the world no longer is going to see Me, but you are going to see Me; ^(AD)because I live, you also will live. ^20 (AE)On that day you will know that ^(AF)I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you. ^21 (AG)The one who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and ^(AH)the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will ^(AI)reveal Myself to him.” ^22 (AJ)Judas (not Iscariot) *said to Him, “Lord, what has happened ^(AK)that You are going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?” ²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “^(AL)If anyone loves Me, he will ^(AM)follow My word; and ^(AN)My Father will love him, and We ^(AO)will come to him and make Our dwelling with him. ²⁴ The one who does not love Me ^(AP)does not follow My words; and ^(AQ)the word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while remaining with you. ²⁶ But the ^(AR)Helper, the Holy Spirit ^(AS)whom the Father will send in My name, ^(AT)He will teach you all things, and ^(AU)remind you of all that I said to you. ^27 (AV)Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. ^[i](AW)Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor ^[j]fearful. ^28 (AX)You heard that I said to you, ‘I am going away, and ^(AY)I am coming to you.’ If you loved Me, you would have rejoiced ^[k]because ^(AZ)I am going to the Father, for ^(BA)the Father is greater than I. ²⁹ And now ^(BB)I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. ³⁰ I will not speak much more with you, for ^(BC)the ruler of the world is coming, and he has ^[l]nothing in regard to Me, ³¹ but so that the world may know that I love the Father, ^[m]I do exactly as ^(BD)the Father commanded Me. Get up, ^(BE)let’s go from here.