Zechariah 11:1
Open thy gates, 0 Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:22A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.
Jeremiah 22:7And I will prepare against thee the destroyer and his weapons: and they shall cut down thy chosen cedars, and shall cast them headlong into the fire.
Ezekiel 31:3Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.
Habakkuk 2:17For the iniquity of Libanus shall cover thee, and the ravaging of beasts shall terrify them because of the blood of men, and the iniquity of the land, and of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
Zechariah 10:10And I will bring them back out of the land of Egypt, and will gather them from among the Assyrians: and will bring them to the land of Galaad, and Libanus, and place shall not be found for them.
Matthew 24:1And Jesus being come out of the temple, went away. And his disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.
Matthew Henry on Zechariah 11:1
God's prophet, who, in the chapters before, was an ambassador sent to promise peace, is here a herald sent to declare war. The Jewish nation shall recover its prosperity, and shall flourish for some time and become considerable; it shall be very happy, at length, in the coming of the long-expected Messiah, in the preaching of his gospel, and in the setting up of his standard there. But, when thereby the chosen remnant among them are effectually called in and united to Christ, the body of the nation, persisting in… Read the whole commentary →