¹⁰Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Becauseⁿ it was tall in height and it set its treetop between^o thick clouds, and he took pride in his tallness,^p ¹¹then^q I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he dealt thoroughly^r with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out. ¹²And 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. ¹³On its fallen trunk all the birds^s of the heaven^t now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches. ¹⁴This occurred so that all of the trees with abundant water will not become tall, and they will not set their treetop between^u their thick foliage,^v and so that all of the trees that are abundantly watered^w will not stand up to them^x 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

Read in Logos

Footnotes

nLiterally “because that”
oHebrew “to between”
pLiterally “and his heart he raised in his tallness”
qOr “and”
rLiterally “doing he did”
sHebrew “bird”
tOr “sky”
uOr “among”
vOr “clouds”
wLiterally “all of the drinkers of water”
xLiterally “will not stand to them”
yLiterally “sons of men,” or “children of humankind”
zOr “pit”