¹⁰ “Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Since it^[a] became great in height and set its top among the clouds,^[b] and it^[c] grew proud^(A) on account of its height, ¹¹ I determined to hand it over to a ruler of nations;^(B) he would surely deal with it. I banished it because of its wickedness. ¹² Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations,^(C) cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it. ¹³ All the birds of the sky nested on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field were among its boughs. ¹⁴ This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds,^[d] and so that no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the underworld, among the people who descend to the Pit.^(D)