New American Standard Bible 2020

Ezekiel 31:15-18

15‘This is what the Lord God says: “On the day when it went down to Sheol I 1caused mourning; I closed the 2deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. 16I made the nations 3quake from the sound of its fall when I made it 4go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the 5well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of 6Lebanon, were 7comforted in the earth beneath. 17They also 8went down with it to Sheol to those who were 9slain by the sword; and those who were its 10strength lived 11in its shade among the nations.

18“To which among the trees of Eden are you so alike in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the 12uncircumcised with those who were killed by the sword. 13This is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 31:15 Ezek 32:7; Nah 2:10 ↩
2. Ezekiel 31:15 I.e., subterranean waters ↩
3. Ezekiel 31:16 Ezek 26:15; 27:28; Hag 2:7 ↩
4. Ezekiel 31:16 Is 14:15; Ezek 32:18 ↩
5. Ezekiel 31:16 Lit drinkers of water ↩
6. Ezekiel 31:16 Is 14:8; Hab 2:17 ↩
7. Ezekiel 31:16 Ezek 14:22, 23; 32:31 ↩
8. Ezekiel 31:17 Ps 9:17 ↩
9. Ezekiel 31:17 Ezek 32:20f ↩
10. Ezekiel 31:17 Lit arm ↩
11. Ezekiel 31:17 Ezek 31:3, 6; Dan 4:12 ↩
12. Ezekiel 31:18 Jer 9:25, 26; Ezek 28:10; 32:19, 21 ↩
13. Ezekiel 31:18 Ps 52:7; Matt 13:19 ↩

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