OPen thy doores] A Prophecie of the last destruction of Jerusalem and the Jews, by the Romanes, because they had rejected the Messiah: Now because Lebanon was the confine of the countrey on that side where the Romanes made their chiefe inroade or invasion; it is here brought in as opening the gates of Judea. devoure thy cedars] This may be understood either literally, because the Romanes did almost destroy the whole forest of Lebanon, to employ the trees to the besieging of Jerusalem as Isaiah 14:8. Or figuratively, for the most powerfull and flourishing citie of Jerusalem, as Isaiah 2:17. Ezekiel 17:3.