O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in travail!”
Zechariah 11:1 - Revised Standard Version Open your doors, O Lebanon, 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. |
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in travail!”
Behold, I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.
The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.
Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may appear in my glory, says the Lord.
I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria; and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.
Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!
“On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour to the right and to the left all the peoples round about, while Jerusalem shall still be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.
For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.