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Wail, cypress trees, for the cedar trees have fallen
"If the trees were people, they would cry out in sorrow. The cypress trees stand alone because the cedars have burned and fallen"
What was glorious has been devastated
"The glorious cedar trees are no more" or "The cedar trees were once glorious, but now they are ruined"
Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has gone down.
"If the oak trees in Bashan were people, they would wail, for their impenetrable forests are gone"
impenetrable forest
a forest in which plants grow so close together that people cannot pass between them