Ezekiel 31:14–18

^14rAll this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds,⁴ and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, ^sto the world ^tbelow, among the children of man,⁵ with those who go down to the pit.

¹⁵“Thus says the Lord God: On the day ^uthe cedar⁶ went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. ^16vI made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, ^uwhen I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. ^wAnd all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, ^xwere comforted in the world below. ¹⁷They also went down to Sheol with it, ^yto those who are slain by the sword; yes, ^zthose who were its arm, ^awho lived under its shadow among the nations.

^18b“Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness ^wamong the trees of Eden? ^cYou shall be brought down with ^wthe trees of Eden to the world below. ^dYou shall lie among the uncircumcised, ^ywith those who are slain by the sword.

^b“This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”