Parallel Verses

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.

International Standard Version

Open your doors, 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, O Lebanon,
That a fire may feed on your cedars.
2 Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!

Cross References

Jeremiah 22:6-7

For thus says the LORD concerning the house of the king of Judah: "'You are like Gilead to me, like the summit of Lebanon, yet surely I will make you a desert, an uninhabited city.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Jeremiah 22:23

O inhabitant of Lebanon, nested among the cedars, how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you, pain as of a woman in labor!"

Ezekiel 31:3

Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

Habakkuk 2:17

The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

Haggai 1:8

Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD.

Zechariah 10:10

I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and to Lebanon, till there is no room for them.

Zechariah 14:1-2

Behold, a day is coming for the LORD, when the spoil taken from you will be divided in your midst.

Matthew 24:1-2

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

Luke 19:41-44

And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,

Luke 21:23-24

Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people.

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