Zechariah 11:2
Howl, you fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the magnificent have been devastated. Howl, you oaks of Bashan, because the secure forest passage has been cut down.
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In Context
1Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume your cedars.
Cross References
Isaiah 2:13and over all the straight and tall cedars of Lebanon, and over all the oaks of Bashan;
Isaiah 32:15until the Spirit is poured over us from on high. And the desert will be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be considered as a forest.
Ezekiel 31:2“Son of man, speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom can you be compared in your greatness?
Amos 6:1Woe to you who have been wealthy in Zion, and to you who have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: aristocrats, heads of the people, who advance with a retinue into the house of Israel.
Luke 23:31For if they do these things with green wood, what will be done with the dry?”
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 11:2-4
Destruction of the Jewish State. ( b. c. 510.) 1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled. In dark and figurative expressions, as is usual in the scripture predictions of things at a great… Read the whole commentary →