Ezekiel 31:12-14

Expanded Bible

¹² The ·cruelest [most ruthless] foreign nation cut it down and left it. The tree’s branches fell on the mountains and in all the valleys, and its ·broken limbs [boughs] were in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth left the shade of that tree. ¹³ The birds of the ·sky [heavens] live on the fallen tree. The wild animals live among the tree’s fallen branches. ¹⁴ So the trees that grow by the water will not ·be proud to be [or grow so] tall; they will not put their tops among the clouds. None of the trees that are watered well will grow that tall, because they all are ·meant [appointed; consigned] to die and go ·under the ground [or to the underworld; to the depths of the earth]. They will be with ·people who have died [mortals; ^Lsons of men] and ·have gone down [those who descend] to the ·place of the dead [^Lpit].