1 Open your doors, Lebanon,so that fire can burn down your cedar trees!
2 Weep and wail, cypress trees —the cedars have fallen;those glorious trees have been destroyed!Weep and wail, oaks of Bashan —the dense forest has been cut down!
3 The rulers cry out in grief;their glory is gone!Listen to the roaring of the lions;their forest home along the Jordan is destroyed!
4 The Lord my God said to me, “Act the part of the shepherd of a flock of sheep that are going to be butchered.
5 Their owners kill them and go unpunished. They sell the meat and say, ‘Praise the Lord! We are rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no pity on them.”