Lexicon :: Strong's H1265 - bᵊrôš

‘Through your messengers you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And have said [boastfully], “With my many chariots

I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

I cut down its tall cedar trees and its choicest cypress trees.

I entered its most distant lodging, its densest forest.

Where the birds make their nests;

As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

“Even the cypress trees rejoice over you [kings of Babylon], even the cedars of Lebanon, saying,

‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’

“Through your servants you have taunted and defied the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon.

I cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees;

And I will go to its remotest height, its most luxuriant and thickest forest.

“I will put the cedar in the wilderness,

The acacia, the myrtle and the olive tree;

I will place the juniper in the desert

Together with the box tree and the cypress,

“Instead of the thorn bush the cypress tree will grow,

And instead of the nettle the myrtle tree will grow;

And it will be a memorial to the LORD,

For an everlasting sign [of His mercy] which will not be cut off.”

“The glory of Lebanon will come to you,

The [fn]cypress, the juniper, and the cedar together,

To beautify the place of My sanctuary;

And I will honor and make the place of My feet glorious.

“They have made all your planks of fir trees from [fn]Senir;

They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide or rival it;

The cypress trees did not have boughs like it,

And the [fn]plane trees did not have branches like it.

No tree in the garden of God was like it in its beauty.

O Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?

It is I who have answered and will care for you and watch over you.

I am like a luxuriant cypress tree;

With Me your fruit is found [which is to nourish you].

The shields of his soldiers [of [fn]Media and Babylon] are colored red;

The warriors are dressed in scarlet.

The chariots blaze with fire of [flashing] steel

When he is prepared to march,

And the cypress spears are brandished [for battle].

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,

Because the magnificent trees have been destroyed;

Wail, O oaks of Bashan,

For the inaccessible forest [on the steep mountainside] has come down.