^19 (A)And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.

¹⁰ “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because ^(K)it^[a] towered high and set its top among the clouds,^[b] and ^(L)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 (M)Foreigners, ^(N)the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. ^(O)On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all ^(P)the ravines of the land, and ^(Q)all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. ^13 (R)On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. ^14 (S)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, ^(T)to the world ^(U)below, among the children of man,^[d] with those who go down to the pit.

¹⁵ “Thus says the Lord God: On the day ^(V)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 (W)I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, ^(X)when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. ^(Y)And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, ^(Z)were comforted in the world below. ¹⁷ They also went down to Sheol with it, ^(AA)to those who are slain by the sword; yes, ^(AB)those who were its arm, ^(AC)who lived under its shadow among the nations.

^18 (AD)“Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness ^(AE)among the trees of Eden? ^(AF)You shall be brought down with ^(AG)the trees of Eden to the world below. ^(AH)You shall lie among the uncircumcised, ^(AI)with those who are slain by the sword.

^(AJ)“This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”

²⁴ And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; ^(A)I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up ^(B)the green tree, and make ^(C)the dry tree flourish. ^(D)I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”

⁹ “Say, Thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers, so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots. ¹⁰ Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? ^(B)Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”