Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars! New Living Translation Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedar forests. English Standard Version Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars! Berean Standard Bible Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars! King James Bible Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. New King James Version Open your doors, O Lebanon, That fire may devour your cedars. New American Standard Bible Open your doors, Lebanon, So that a fire may feed on your cedars. NASB 1995 Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars. NASB 1977 Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may feed on your cedars. Legacy Standard Bible Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may consume your cedars. Amplified Bible Open your doors, O Lebanon, That fire may devour your cedars. Christian Standard Bible Open your gates, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars. Holman Christian Standard Bible Open your gates, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars. American Standard Version Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Open your gates, oh Lebanon, and fire will devour your cedars! Brenton Septuagint Translation Open thy doors, O Libanus, and let the fire devour thy cedars. Contemporary English Version Lebanon, open your gates! Let the fire come in to destroy your cedar trees. Douay-Rheims Bible Open thy gates, 0 Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars. English Revised Version Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. GOD'S WORD® Translation Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire will be able to burn down your cedars. Good News Translation Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire can burn down your cedar trees! International Standard Version Open your doors, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars. JPS Tanakh 1917 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, That the fire may devour thy cedars. Literal Standard Version Open, O Lebanon, your doors, | And fire devours among your cedars. Majority Standard Bible Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars! New American Bible Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars! NET Bible Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars. New Revised Standard Version Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars! New Heart English Bible Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Young's Literal Translation Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Doomed Flock1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars! 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!… Cross References Jeremiah 22:6 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. Jeremiah 22:7 I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire. Ezekiel 31:3 Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds. Habakkuk 2:17 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. Zechariah 11:2 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! Zechariah 12:6 On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there. Treasury of Scripture Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. O Lebanon. Zechariah 10:10 I 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. Jeremiah 22:6,7,23 For 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… Habakkuk 2:8,17 Because 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… that. Zechariah 14:1,2 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee… Deuteronomy 32:22 For 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. Matthew 24:1,2 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple… Jump to Previous Burning Cedars Devour Doors Feed Fire Lebanon OpenJump to Next Burning Cedars Devour Doors Feed Fire Lebanon OpenZechariah 11 1. The destruction of Jerusalem.3. The elect being cared for, the rest are rejected. 10. The staves of Beauty and Bands broken by the rejection of Christ. 15. The type and curse of a foolish shepherd. Verse 1. - Open thy doors, O Lebanon. The prophet graphically portrays the punishment that is to fall upon the people. The sin that occasions this chastisement, viz. the rejection of their Shepherd and King, is denounced later (§ 9). Lebanon stood in the path of an invader from the north, whence most hostile armies entered Palestine. The "doors" of Lebanon are the mountain passes which gave access to the country. Some commentators, following an old Jewish interpretation, take Lebanon to mean the temple or Jerusalem; but we are constrained to adhere primarily to the literal signification by the difficulty of carrying on the metaphorical allusions in the following clauses. That the fire may devour thy cedars. That the invader may wantonly destroy thy trees which are thy glory and thy boast. 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Hebrew Openפְּתַ֥ח (pə·ṯaḥ) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve your doors, דְּלָתֶ֑יךָ (də·lā·ṯe·ḵā) Noun - fdc | second person masculine singular Strong's 1817: Something swinging, the valve of a, door O Lebanon, לְבָנ֖וֹן (lə·ḇā·nō·wn) Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 3844: Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel that the fire אֵ֖שׁ (’êš) Noun - common singular Strong's 784: A fire may consume וְתֹאכַ֥ל (wə·ṯō·ḵal) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 398: To eat your cedars. בַּאֲרָזֶֽיךָ׃ (ba·’ă·rā·ze·ḵā) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 730: A cedar tree Links Zechariah 11:1 NIVZechariah 11:1 NLT Zechariah 11:1 ESV Zechariah 11:1 NASB Zechariah 11:1 KJV Zechariah 11:1 BibleApps.com Zechariah 11:1 Biblia Paralela Zechariah 11:1 Chinese Bible Zechariah 11:1 French Bible Zechariah 11:1 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Zechariah 11:1 Open your doors Lebanon that the fire (Zech. 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