1 Lebanon, open your gates!Let the fire come into destroy your cedar trees.
2 Cry, you cypress trees!The glorious cedars have fallenand are rotting.Cry, you oak trees of Bashan!The dense foresthas been chopped down.
3 Listen! Shepherds are crying.Their glorious pastureshave been ruined.Listen! Lions are roaring.The forests of the Jordan Valleyare no more to be found.
4 The Lord my God said to me:Tend those sheep doomed for slaughter!