🕊️WEB · Zechariah 11:1

What does Zechariah 11:1 mean?

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

— Zechariah 11:1 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

1

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

2

Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has come down.

3

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

4

Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

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