lebanon

⁵The voice of the Lord shatters the cedars. And the Lord will shatter the cedars of Lebanon.

¹⁶The trees of the field will be saturated, along with the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted.

¹⁷In not more than a little while and a brief time, Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and a fruitful field will be considered to be a forest.

¹³The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.

²³By the hand of your servants, you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the summit of Lebanon. And I have cut down its sublime cedars, and its elect spruce trees. And I have entered even to its limits. And its forest of Carmel,

¹³and over all the straight and tall cedars of Lebanon, and over all the oaks of Bashan;

⁵I will heal their contrition; I will love them spontaneously. For my wrath has been turned away from them. ⁶I will be like the dew; Israel will spring forth like the lily, and his root will spread out like that of the cedars of Lebanon. ⁷His branches will advance, and his glory will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance will be like that of the cedars of Lebanon.

⁶For thus says the Lord about the house of the king of Judah: You are to me like Gilead, the head of Lebanon. Certainly, I will make you desolate, with uninhabitable cities.

⁸The evergreens, too, have rejoiced over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying: ‘Since you have slept, no one has ascended who would cut us down.’

¹⁶And Lebanon will not be sufficient to start a fire, and its animals will not be sufficient for a burnt offering.

¹⁵The fountain of the gardens is a well of living waters, which flow forcefully from Lebanon.

¹⁴Do the snows of Lebanon fail to fall on the rocks of the field? Or are the cold waters, which burst forth and flow down, able to be rooted out?