⁵ They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.

⁹ (By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)

⁸ Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

¹ Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his servants to him; for Hiram had ever been a friend to David.

⁶ So now, will you have cedar-trees from Lebanon cut down for me, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you payment for your servants at whatever rate you say; for it is common knowledge that we have no such wood-cutters among us as the men of Zidon.

⁵ By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord.

¹² The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.

¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

⁸ Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.