Bible in Basic English
"Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars."
— Zechariah 11:1, Bible in Basic English
“Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars.”
Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.
Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.
The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.
This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;