Ezekiel 31:10-18
Evangelical Heritage Version
10 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says. Because you were so tall, because the cedar stretched its top up between the clouds, and its heart became haughty because of its height, 11 I will hand it over to a chief of nations, and he will deal harshly with it. I banished it as its wickedness deserved. 12 Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, cut it down and discarded it. Its branches fell on the mountains and in all the valleys. Its boughs lay broken in all the streambeds of the land, and all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it. 13 All the birds in the sky lodged on its fallen trunk, and all the wild animals in the countryside came to its branches. 14 All this happened so that all the well-watered trees would never again reach such heights or stretch their tops up between the clouds. Nor will the tallest of them remain standing—even though they drink in water—because they have all been handed over to death, to be below the earth, along with all mankind, with those who have descended to the pit.
15 This is what the Lord God says. When Assyria went down to the grave,[a] I caused mourning everywhere. I covered the deep because of it. I restrained the rivers of the deep, and the plentiful waters were held back. I dressed Lebanon in black because of it, and all the trees in the countryside dried up because of it. 16 I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I brought it down to the grave to be with those who have descended to the pit. Below the earth, all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all those that drink up water, consoled themselves, 17 even those who served as Assyria’s arm, those who lived in its shade among the nations, even those who went down to the grave with it, those run through by the sword.
18 To whom, then, can you be compared in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down below the earth, together with the trees of Eden. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, together with those run through by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his horde, declares the Lord God.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 31:15 Hebrew sheol, here and also in verses 16 and 17
Ezekiel 31:10-18
Lexham English Bible
10 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because[a] it was tall in height and it set its treetop between[b] thick clouds, and he took pride in his tallness,[c] 11 then[d] I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he dealt thoroughly[e] with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out. 12 And strangers cut it off, the most ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all of the valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it. 13 On its fallen trunk all the birds[f] of the heaven[g] now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches. 14 This occurred so that all of the trees with abundant water will not become tall, and they will not set their treetop between[h] their thick foliage,[i] and so thatall of the trees that are abundantly watered[j] will not stand up to them[k] in their tallness, for all of them, they have been given over to death, to the world below in the midst of mortals,[l] to the people going down to the grave.”[m]
15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “On the day of its going down to Sheol, I caused mourning; I covered over it with the deep, and I withheld its rivers, and many waters were restrained, and I brought gloom over it; Lebanon and all of the trees of the field, they had fainted because of it. 16 From the sound of its downfall I caused nations to shake when I made it go down to Sheol, with the people going down to the grave,[n] and so in the world below all of the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees[o] were comforted! 17 They also went down with it to Sheol to those who died by the sword,[p] and its army who had lived in its shadow in the midst of nations.
18 To whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majesty[q] among the trees of Eden? And yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie with those who died by the sword.[r] That is Pharaoh and his entire[s] crowd!”[t] declares[u] the Lord Yahweh.
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- Ezekiel 31:10 Literally “because that”
- Ezekiel 31:10 Hebrew “to between”
- Ezekiel 31:10 Literally “and his heart he raised in his tallness”
- Ezekiel 31:11 Or “and”
- Ezekiel 31:11 Literally “doing he did”
- Ezekiel 31:13 Hebrew “bird”
- Ezekiel 31:13 Or “sky”
- Ezekiel 31:14 Or “among”
- Ezekiel 31:14 Or “clouds”
- Ezekiel 31:14 Literally “all of the drinkers of water”
- Ezekiel 31:14 Literally “will not stand to them”
- Ezekiel 31:14 Literally “sons of men,” or “children of humankind”
- Ezekiel 31:14 Or “pit”
- Ezekiel 31:16 Or “the pit”
- Ezekiel 31:16 Literally “all ofthe drinkers of water”
- Ezekiel 31:17 Literally “to the slain of the sword”
- Ezekiel 31:18 Literally “To who you are like as in glory and in majesty”
- Ezekiel 31:18 Literally “the slain of the sword”
- Ezekiel 31:18 Literally “all his hordes/crowd”
- Ezekiel 31:18 Or “hordes”
- Ezekiel 31:18 Literally “declaration of”
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