11 I have therefore delivered him into the hands of the [a]mightiest among the heathen: he shall handle him, for I have cast him away for his wickedness.

12 And the strangers have destroyed him, even the terrible nations, and they have left him upon the mountains, and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are [b]broken by all the rivers of the land: and all the people of the earth are departed from his shadow, and have forsaken him.

13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:11 That is, of Nebuchadnezzar, who afterward was the monarch and only ruler of the world.
  2. Ezekiel 31:12 Hereby is signified the destruction of the power of the Assyrians by the Babylonians.

11 I gave it into the hands of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside,(A) 12 and the most ruthless of foreign nations(B) cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys;(C) its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.(D) 13 All the birds settled on the fallen tree, and all the wild animals lived among its branches.(E)

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