Ezekiel 31:10-18
World English Bible
10 “Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 13 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches; 14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’
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.
18 “‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
“‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
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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, 11 I 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. 17 They 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.
(Z)“This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”
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- Ezekiel 31:10 Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew you
- Ezekiel 31:10 Or its top through the thick boughs
- Ezekiel 31:14 Or their tops through the thick boughs
- Ezekiel 31:14 Or of Adam
- Ezekiel 31:15 Hebrew it
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