Zechariah 11:2
Howl, O fir, for the cedar has fallen, || For their majestic ones were destroyed, || Howl, you oaks of Bashan, || For the enclosed forest has come down,
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In Context
1Open, O Lebanon, your doors, || And fire devours among your cedars.
Cross References
Isaiah 2:13And for all cedars of Lebanon, || The high and the exalted ones, || And for all oaks of Bashan,
Isaiah 32:15Until the Spirit is emptied out on us from on high, || And a wilderness has become a fruitful field, || And the fruitful field is reckoned for a forest.
Ezekiel 31:2“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: To whom have you been like in your greatness?
Amos 6:1Woe [to] those secure in Zion, || And those confident on the mountain of Samaria, || The marked of the chief of the nations, || And the house of Israel has come to them.
Luke 23:31for if they do these things in the green tree, what may happen in 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 →