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Ezekiel 31:10–18

10 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Becausen it was tall in height and it set its treetop betweeno thick clouds, and he took pride in his tallness,p 11 thenq I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he dealt thoroughlyr with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out. 12 And strangers cut it off, the most ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all of the valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it. 13 On its fallen trunk all the birdss of the heavent now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches. 14 This occurred so that all of the trees with abundant water will not become tall, and they will not set their treetop betweenu their thick foliage,v and so that all of the trees that are abundantly wateredw will not stand up to themx in their tallness, for all of them, they have been given over to death, to the world below in the midst of mortals,y to the people going down to the grave.”z

15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “On the day of its going down to Sheol, I caused mourning; I covered over it with the deep, and I withheld its rivers, and many waters were restrained, and I brought gloom over it; Lebanon and all of the trees of the field, they had fainted because of it. 16 From the sound of its downfall I caused nations to shake when I made it go down to Sheol, with the people going down to the grave,a and so in the world below all of the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, all the well-watered treesb were comforted! 17 They also went down with it to Sheol to those who died by the sword,c and its army who had lived in its shadow in the midst of nations.

18 To whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majestyd among the trees of Eden? And yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie with those who died by the sword.e That is Pharaoh and his entiref crowd!”g declaresh the Lord Yahweh.

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