Zechariah Chapter 11 verse 1 Holy Bible
Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.
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Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Open your doors, Lebanon, That the fire may devour your cedars.
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Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - Open thy doors, O Lebanon. The prophet graphically portrays the punishment that is to fall upon the people. The sin that occasions this chastisement, viz. the rejection of their Shepherd and King, is denounced later (ยง 9). Lebanon stood in the path of an invader from the north, whence most hostile armies entered Palestine. The "doors" of Lebanon are the mountain passes which gave access to the country. Some commentators, following an old Jewish interpretation, take Lebanon to mean the temple or Jerusalem; but we are constrained to adhere primarily to the literal signification by the difficulty of carrying on the metaphorical allusions in the following clauses. That the fire may devour thy cedars. That the invader may wantonly destroy thy trees which are thy glory and thy boast.
