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.”