Zec 11:1 | NETfull | STEP | Open your gates, Lebanon, so that the fire may consume your cedars.

Zechariah 11:1

1 Open your gates, Lebanon,
so that the fire may consume your cedars. ^{▼▼ In this poetic section, plants and animals provide the imagery for rulers, especially evil ones (cf. respectively Isa 10:33–34; Ezek 31:8; Amos 2:9; Nah 2:12).}