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.
12-13. I told them, “Pay me my wages, if you think you should; otherwise, forget it.” So they handed me my wages, a measly thirty pieces of silver.Then the Lord said, “Throw the money into the treasury.” So I threw the money into the treasury at the Lord's temple.