KJV King James Version
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Zechariah 11:1
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
WEB World English Bible
Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
ASV American Standard Version
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.
Surrounding context — Zechariah 11
1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
2 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.
3 [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
4 Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
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Jeremiah 22:6-7For thus saith the LORD unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou [art] Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon: [yet] surely I will make thee a wilderness, [and] cities [which] are not inhabited.Jeremiah 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!Luke 21:23-24But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.Luke 19:41-44And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,Habakkuk 2:8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and [for] the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.Deuteronomy 32:22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.Habakkuk 2:17For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.Matthew 24:1-2And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to [him] for to shew him the buildings of the temple.Haggai 1:8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.Zechariah 10:10I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them.Zechariah 14:1-2Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.Ezekiel 31:3Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
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