You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come on you, agony like a woman in labour.
Zechariah 11:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Open your gates, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition OPEN YOUR doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars! American Standard Version (1901) Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. Common English Bible Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire will devour your cedars. Catholic Public Domain Version Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume your cedars. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars. |
You residents of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when pains come on you, agony like a woman in labour.
Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and shady foliage and of lofty height. Its top was among the clouds.
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of animals will terrify you because of your human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them.
Since you have plundered many nations, all the peoples who remain will plunder you – because of human bloodshed and violence against lands, cities, and all who live in them.
Go up into the hills, bring down timber, and build the house; and I will be pleased with it and be glorified,’ says the Lord.
I will bring them back from the land of Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, but it will not be enough for them.
Wail, cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the glorious trees are destroyed! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the stately forest has fallen!
On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a brazier in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and the left, while Jerusalem continues to be inhabited on its site, in Jerusalem.
For fire has been kindled because of my anger and burns to the depths of Sheol; it devours the land and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.