Ezekiel 31:14–18

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

¹⁵Thus 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. ¹⁶From 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 trees^b were comforted! ¹⁷They 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.

¹⁸To whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majesty^d 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 entire^f crowd!”^g declares^h the Lord Yahweh.