Ezekiel 31:12-14
International Standard Version
12 Foreign dictators have trimmed it down to size and abandoned it. Its branches have fallen off on mountains and in all the valleys. Its boughs have broken off in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth have moved out of its shade and abandoned it. 13 All the birds in the sky will live among its ruins, and the wild animals[a] will forage among its branches. 14 As a result, none of its watered trees will grow tall, their tops will never reach to the clouds, and they’ll never grow so high again, because all of them have been appointed[b] to death in the world beneath where human beings go, that is, down to the Pit.’”[c]
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- Ezekiel 31:13 Lit. the animals of the field
- Ezekiel 31:14 Lit. given
- Ezekiel 31:14 I.e. the realm of eternal punishment in the afterlife
Ezekiel 31:12-14
New International Version
12 and the most ruthless of foreign nations(A) cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys;(B) 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.(C) 13 All the birds settled on the fallen tree, and all the wild animals lived among its branches.(D) 14 Therefore no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well-watered are ever to reach such a height; they are all destined(E) for death,(F) for the earth below, among mortals who go down to the realm of the dead.(G)
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