"For I will setapartdestroyersagainstyou, Eachwith his weapons;And they will cutdownyour choicestcedarsAnd throw[them] on the fire.
"Throughyour servantsyou have reproachedthe Lord,And you have said,'With my manychariotsI cameup to the heightsof the mountains,To the remotestpartsof Lebanon;And I cutdownits tallcedars[and] its choicecypresses.And I will goto its highestpeak,its thickestforest.
"Their widowswill be morenumerousbefore Me Thanthe sandof the seas;I will bringagainst them, againstthe motherof a youngman,A destroyerat noonday;I will suddenlybringdownon her Anguishand dismay.
"But I will punishyou according to the resultsof your deeds,"declaresthe LORD,"And I will kindlea firein its forestThat it may devourallits environs."'"
"Behold,I am bringinga nationagainstyou from afar,O houseof Israel,"declaresthe LORD."It is an enduringnation,It is an ancientnation,A nationwhose languageyou do not know,Norcan you understandwhatthey say.
Openyour doors,O Lebanon,That a firemay feedon your cedars.
"But the kingwas enraged,and he senthis armiesand destroyedthosemurderersand settheir cityon fire.
