Zechariah 11:1
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Open your doors, O Lebanon,that the fire may consume your cedars!”
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BSBPD
“Open your doors, O Lebanon,that the fire may consume your cedars!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Zechariah 11:1 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:22For 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.
- Jeremiah 22:6For 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 22:7I 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.
- Jeremiah 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
- Ezekiel 31:3Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.
- Habakkuk 2:8Because 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 2:17For 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 1:8Go 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.
- Zechariah 10:10I will bring them back from Egyptand gather them from Assyria.I will bring them to Gilead and Lebanonuntil no more room is found for them.
- Zechariah 14:1Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.
- Matthew 24:1As Jesus left the temple and was walking away, His disciples came up to Him to point out its buildings.
- Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
- Luke 21:23How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people.
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