11 therefore I will give it into the hand of a [a](A)despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have (B)driven it away. 12 (C)Alien (D)tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the (E)mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have (F)gone down from its shade and left it. 13 On its ruin all the (G)birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:11 Or mighty one

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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