Zechariah 11:1
Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!
3 Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
- KJV
- Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
- WEB
- Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
- ASV
- Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
- DARBY
- Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
- BLB
- Open, O Lebanon, your doors, that fire may devour your cedars!
- ÅB
- Lat opp dine porter, Libanon, så ilden kan fortære dine sedrer!
- OTB
- Åpne dine dører, Libanon,
så ilden kan fortære dine sedrer. - B1930
- Lat op dine porter, Libanon, så ilden kan fortære dine sedrer!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 22:23
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
Read in contextJeremiah 22:6–7
For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
Read in contextLuke 21:23–24
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 32:22
For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
Read in contextHabakkuk 2:8
Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
Read in contextHaggai 1:8
Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.
Read in contextMatthew 24:1–2
As Jesus left the temple and was walking away, His disciples came up to Him to point out its buildings.
Read in contextLuke 19:41–44
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
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