1 Open your doors, Lebanon,that the fire may devour your cedars.
2 Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen,because the stately ones are destroyed.Wail, you oaks of Bashan,for the strong forest has come down.
3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions!For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
4 the Lord my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.
5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”