Ezekiel 31:12-14

Evangelical Heritage Version

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.