Zechariah 11:1 “Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!”

Zechariah 11:1

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

World English Bible

Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.

American Standard Version

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

Geneva Bible 1599

Open thy doores, O Lebanon, and the fire shall deuoure thy cedars.

Darby Translation

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

Young's Literal Translation

Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.

Bible in Basic English

Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.

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Cross references

“O Lebanon”

Jeremiah 22:23 Zechariah 10:10 Habakkuk 2:8 Habakkuk 2:17 Haggai 1:8 Jeremiah 22:6

Jeremiah 22:23 · BSB

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.”

Zechariah 10:10 · BSB

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanon until no more room is found for them.

Habakkuk 2:8 · BSB

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.

Habakkuk 2:17 · BSB

For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.

Haggai 1:8 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 22:6 · BSB

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.

“that”

Deuteronomy 32:22 Luke 19:41–44 Zechariah 14:1 Zechariah 14:2 Matthew 24:1 Matthew 24:2

Deuteronomy 32:22 · BSB

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.

Luke 19:41–44 · BSB

As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

Zechariah 14:1 · BSB

Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.

Zechariah 14:2 · BSB

For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be remove…

Matthew 24:1 · BSB

As Jesus left the temple and was walking away, His disciples came up to Him to point out its buildings.

Matthew 24:2 · BSB

“Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”

Also

Ezekiel 31:3

Ezekiel 31:3 · BSB

Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Wail, 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!

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