Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Open your doors, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars.

New American Standard Bible

Open your doors, O Lebanon,
That a fire may feed on your cedars.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Open your gates, Lebanon,
and fire will consume your cedars.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Open your doors, O Lebanon,
That fire may devour your cedars.

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Open the doors, O Lebanon, and fire shall devour among thy cedars.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Open your doors, Lebanon, so that fire will devour your cedars!

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume thy cedar trees.

NET Bible

Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, - that a fire, may devour, thy cedar,

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּתח 
Pathach 
Usage: 143

דּלת 
Deleth 
Usage: 88

לבנון 
L@banown 
Usage: 71

that the fire
אשׁ 
'esh 
Usage: 378

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Israel's Shepherds: Good And Bad

1 Open your doors, Lebanon, and fire will consume your cedars. 2 Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen while the stately trees are destroyed. Wail, oak trees of Bashan, for the old growth forest has been cut down.



Cross References

Jeremiah 22:6-7

For this is what the LORD says about the house of the king of Judah, "You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon. Yet I'll surely make you a desert, towns where no one lives.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire breaks out in my anger burning to the deepest part of the afterlife, consuming the earth and its produce and igniting the foundations of the mountains.

Jeremiah 22:23

You who live in Lebanon, who build your nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pains come upon you, pain like that of a woman giving birth.

Ezekiel 31:3

Think about Assyria, that cedar of Lebanon, beautiful with its branches, like a shady forest, with an awesome height, its summit touches the clouds.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you plundered many nations, all of their remnants will plunder you. Human blood has been shed, and violence has been done to the land, to the city, and to all who live in it."

Habakkuk 2:17

Indeed, the violence done to Lebanon will overtake you, and the destruction of the beasts will terrorize you because you shed human blood and did violence to the land, to the city, and to all who live in it."

Haggai 1:8

Go up into the mountains, bring timber, and reconstruct my house. Then I will be pleased with it and I will be honored,' says the LORD.

Zechariah 10:10

I will bring them once again out of the land of Egypt, gathering them from Assyria. I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, but there will not be enough space for them.

Zechariah 14:1-2

"Look! A day is coming for the LORD, when your plunder will be divided among you.

Matthew 24:1-2

As Jesus left the Temple and was walking away, his disciples came up to him to point out to him the Temple buildings.

Luke 19:41-44

When he came closer and saw the city, he began to grieve over it:

Luke 21:23-24

"How terrible it will be for those women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days! because there will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

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