Zechariah 11:2
1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
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.
4 This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,
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
- 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!
- KJV
- Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
- WEB
- Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.
- ASV
- Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.
- DARBY
- Howl, cypress, for the cedar is fallen; because the noble ones are spoiled. Howl, ye oaks of Bashan; for the strong forest is come down.
- BLB
- Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the mighty ones are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for forest the dense has gone down.
- ÅB
- Jamre deg, du cypress, fordi sederen er falt, fordi de herlige trær er ødelagt! Jamre dere, dere Basans eker, fordi den utilgjengelige skog er felt!
- OTB
- Jamre, einer, for sederen har falt;
de majestetiske trær er ødelagt!
Jamre, Basans eiker,
for den tette skogen er brakt ned! - B1930
- Jamre dig, du cypress, fordi sederen er falt, fordi de herlige trær er ødelagt! Jamre eder, I Basans eker, fordi den utilgjengelige skog er felt!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 23:31
For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Read in contextEzekiel 20:46
“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
Read in contextIsaiah 32:15–19
until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
Read in contextIsaiah 2:12–17
For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—
Read in contextNahum 3:8–19
Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
Read in contextEzekiel 31:2–3
“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Who can be compared to your greatness?
Read in contextAmos 6:1
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
Read in contextEzekiel 31:17
They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.
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