Ezekiel 31:12-14
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Foreigners from the most terrible of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in all the watercourses of the land, and all the peoples of the earth went away from its shade and left it.(A)
13 On its fallen trunk settle
all the birds of the air,
and among its boughs lodge
all the wild animals.(B)
14 All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height.
For all of them are handed over to death,
to the world below;
along with mortals,
with those who go down to the Pit.(C)
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