1 Open your gates, Lebanon— fire will devour your cedars!
2 Wail, cypress tree! For the cedar has fallen. Those majestic ones are devastated. Wail, oaks of Bashan! For the thick forest is cut down!
3 Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed! Listen to the roaring of young lions, for Jordan’s thickets are ruined!
4 Thus said Adonai my God: “Shepherd the flock marked for slaughter!