Ezekiel 31:12-14

Good News Translation

¹² Ruthless foreigners will cut it down and leave it. Its branches and broken limbs will fall on every mountain and valley in the country. All the nations that have been living in its shade will go away. ¹³ The birds will come and perch on the fallen tree, and the wild animals will walk over its branches. ¹⁴ And so from now on, no tree, no matter how well-watered it is, will grow that tall again or push its top through the clouds^[a] and reach such a height. All of them are doomed to die like mortals, doomed to join those who go down to the world of the dead.”