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15 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol[a] I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol[b] with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. 31:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.
  2. 31:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.

15 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away.(A) 16 I made the nations tremble(B) at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees(C) of Eden,(D) the choicest and best of Lebanon, the well-watered trees, were consoled(E) in the earth below.(F) 17 They too, like the great cedar, had gone down to the realm of the dead, to those killed by the sword,(G) along with the armed men who lived in its shade among the nations.

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