Ezekiel 31:14–18

¹⁴This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, ^pand 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. ^q

¹⁵“This is what the Lord God says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. ^rI closed off the underground deep because of it: ^sI held back the rivers of the deep, and its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. ¹⁶I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol to be with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, ^tall the well-watered trees, the choice and best of Lebanon, were comforted ^uin the underworld. ¹⁷They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies ^vwthey had lived in its shade among the nations.

¹⁸“Who then are you like in glory and greatness among Eden’s trees? You also will be brought down to the underworld to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword. ^xThis is Pharaoh and all his hordes”—the declaration of the Lord God.