![]() For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the LORD. Thus says the LORD my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter, whose owners slaughter them and feel no guilt those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich’ and their shepherds do not pity them. (4-7) Zechariah acts out a prophecy of judgment. … roaring lions: In addition to the trees, the shepherds and lions also mourn because of judgment on the land – coming because Israel has rejected their good shepherd. Once they fall the lesser forests of cypress and oak will also be destroyed, so they also wail.Ĭ. ![]() Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen: The cedar trees Illustrate Lebanon’s strength. There is nothing in the history of the people that a comprehensive destruction of the land can refer to prior to the terrible destruction ordered by Vespasian and his successor Titus.”ī. “These verses might have described the Babylonian invasion if they had been written earlier but that was past history by Zechariah’s time. Boice comments on how this prophecy was fulfilled in the Roman campaign against Judea. The doors of Lebanon are the mountain passes between Lebanon and Israel. Open your doors, O Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars: This describes the coming of destructive armies of judgment from the north, through Lebanon. ![]() ![]() Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,Ī. (1-3) Creation mourns because of coming judgment. ![]()
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