Ezekiel 31:10-18

English Standard Version

¹⁰“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because ^(A)it^[a] towered high and set its top among the clouds,^[b] and ^(B)its heart was proud of its height, ¹¹I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out. ¹²^(C)Foreigners, ^(D)the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. ^(E)On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all ^(F)the ravines of the land, and ^(G)all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. ¹³^(H)On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. ¹⁴^(I)All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds,^[c] and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, ^(J)to the world ^(K)below, among the children of man,^[d] with those who go down to the pit.

¹⁵“Thus says the Lord God: On the day ^(L)the cedar^[e] went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. ¹⁶^(M)I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, ^(N)when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. ^(O)And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, ^(P)were comforted in the world below. ¹⁷They also went down to Sheol with it, ^(Q)to those who are slain by the sword; yes, ^(R)those who were its arm, ^(S)who lived under its shadow among the nations.

¹⁸^(T)“Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness ^(U)among the trees of Eden? ^(V)You shall be brought down with ^(W)the trees of Eden to the world below. ^(X)You shall lie among the uncircumcised, ^(Y)with those who are slain by the sword.