Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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.

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, that the fire may devour your cedars. 2 Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

Cross References

Jeremiah 22:6-7

For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, [and] the head of Lebanon; [yet] surely I will make you a wilderness, [and] cities which are not inhabited.

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol, Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

Jeremiah 22:23

Inhabitant of Lebanon, who makes your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied you will be when pangs come on you, the pain as of a woman in travail!

Ezekiel 31:3

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

Habakkuk 2:8

Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.

Habakkuk 2:17

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

Haggai 1:8

Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.

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 there won't be room enough for them.

Zechariah 14:1-2

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.

Matthew 24:1-2

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

Luke 19:41-44

When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,

Luke 21:23-24

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who nurse infants in those days! For there will be great distress in the land, and wrath to this people.

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