¹³ for all the cedars of Lebanon,^(A) tall and lofty,^(B)
    and all the oaks of Bashan,^(C)

⁸ Even the junipers^(A) and the cedars of Lebanon
    gloat over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low,
    no one comes to cut us down.”^(B)

11 Open your doors, Lebanon,^(A)
    so that fire^(B) may devour your cedars!
² Wail, you juniper, for the cedar has fallen;
    the stately trees are ruined!
Wail, oaks^(C) of Bashan;
    the dense forest^(D) has been cut down!^(E)

⁵ I will send fire^(A) on Judah
    that will consume the fortresses^(B) of Jerusalem.^(C)”

³ Consider Assyria,^(A) once a cedar in Lebanon,^(B)
    with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;
it towered on high,
    its top above the thick foliage.^(C)
4 The waters^(D) nourished it,
    deep springs made it grow tall;
their streams flowed
    all around its base
and sent their channels
    to all the trees of the field.^(E)
5 So it towered higher^(F)
    than all the trees of the field;
its boughs increased
    and its branches grew long,
    spreading because of abundant waters.^(G)
6 All the birds of the sky
    nested in its boughs,
all the animals of the wild
    gave birth^(H) under its branches;
all the great nations
    lived in its shade.^(I)
7 It was majestic in beauty,
    with its spreading boughs,
for its roots went down
    to abundant waters.^(J)
8 The cedars^(K) in the garden of God
    could not rival it,
nor could the junipers
    equal its boughs,
nor could the plane trees^(L)
    compare with its branches—
no tree in the garden of God
    could match its beauty.^(M)
9 I made it beautiful
    with abundant branches,
the envy of all the trees of Eden^(N)
    in the garden of God.^(O)

²⁴ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots^(A)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights^(B) of Lebanon.^(C)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.^(D)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.

³³ See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    will lop off^(A) the boughs with great power.
The lofty trees will be felled,^(B)
    the tall^(C) ones will be brought low.^(D)
34 He will cut down^(E) the forest thickets with an ax;
    Lebanon^(F) will fall before the Mighty One.^(G)