Inhabitant of Levanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Zechariah 11:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Open your doors, Levanon, that the fire may devour 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. |
Inhabitant of Levanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shall you be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
Behold, the Ashur was a cedar in Levanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
For the violence done to Levanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,* says the LORD.
I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Ashur; and I will bring them into the land of Gil`ad and Levanon; and there won't be room enough for them.
Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.
In that day I will make the chieftains of Yehudah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Yerushalayim will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Yerushalayim.
For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest She'ol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.