New American Standard Bible 2020

Ezekiel 31:9-18

9I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of 1Eden, which were in the 2garden of God, were jealous of it.

10‘Therefore this is what the Lord 3God says: “Because 4it is tall in stature and has put its top among the 5clouds, and its 6heart is haughty in its loftiness, 11I will hand it over to a 7 8ruler of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. In accordance with its wickedness I have 9driven it out. 12 10Foreign 11tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the 12mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its branches have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have 13gone down from its shade and left it. 13All the 14birds of the sky will nest on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field will 15rest on its fallen branches, 14so that all the trees by the waters will not be exalted in their stature, nor put their tops among the 16clouds, nor will any of their 17well-watered mighty ones stand straight in their height. For they have all been turned over to death, to the 18earth beneath, among 19mankind, 20with those who go down to the pit.”

15‘This is what the Lord God says: “On the day when it went down to Sheol I 21caused mourning; I closed the 22deep 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 23quake from the sound of its fall when I made it 24go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the 25well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of 26Lebanon, were 27comforted in the earth beneath. 17They also 28went down with it to Sheol to those who were 29slain by the sword; and those who were its 30strength lived 31in 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 32uncircumcised with those who were killed by the sword. 33This is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”

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Notes

1. Ezekiel 31:9 Gen 2:8, 9; 13:10; Is 51:3; Ezek 28:13; 31:16, 18 ↩
2. Ezekiel 31:9 Gen 2:8, 9; 13:10; Is 51:3; Ezek 28:13; 31:16, 18 ↩
3. Ezekiel 31:10 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch ↩
4. Ezekiel 31:10 As in Syriac; MT you are ↩
5. Ezekiel 31:10 As in LXX; MT thick branches ↩
6. Ezekiel 31:10 2 Chr 32:25; Is 10:12; 14:13, 14; Ezek 28:17; Dan 5:20 ↩
7. Ezekiel 31:11 Or mighty one ↩
8. Ezekiel 31:11 Ezek 30:10, 11; 32:11, 12; Dan 5:18, 19 ↩
9. Ezekiel 31:11 Deut 18:12; Nah 3:18 ↩
10. Ezekiel 31:12 Ezek 7:21; 28:7; 30:12; Hab 1:6 ↩
11. Ezekiel 31:12 Ezek 28:7; 30:11; 32:12 ↩
12. Ezekiel 31:12 Ezek 32:5; 35:8 ↩
13. Ezekiel 31:12 Ezek 31:17; Dan 4:14; Nah 3:17, 18 ↩
14. Ezekiel 31:13 Is 18:6; Ezek 29:5; 31:6; 32:4 ↩
15. Ezekiel 31:13 Lit be on ↩
16. Ezekiel 31:14 As in LXX; MT thick branches ↩
17. Ezekiel 31:14 Lit drinkers of water ↩
18. Ezekiel 31:14 Num 16:30, 33; Ps 63:9; Ezek 26:20; 31:18; 32:24; Amos 9:2; Jon 2:2, 6; Eph 4:9 ↩
19. Ezekiel 31:14 Lit sons of mankind ↩
20. Ezekiel 31:14 Lit to ↩
21. Ezekiel 31:15 Ezek 32:7; Nah 2:10 ↩
22. Ezekiel 31:15 I.e., subterranean waters ↩
23. Ezekiel 31:16 Ezek 26:15; 27:28; Hag 2:7 ↩
24. Ezekiel 31:16 Is 14:15; Ezek 32:18 ↩
25. Ezekiel 31:16 Lit drinkers of water ↩
26. Ezekiel 31:16 Is 14:8; Hab 2:17 ↩
27. Ezekiel 31:16 Ezek 14:22, 23; 32:31 ↩
28. Ezekiel 31:17 Ps 9:17 ↩
29. Ezekiel 31:17 Ezek 32:20f ↩
30. Ezekiel 31:17 Lit arm ↩
31. Ezekiel 31:17 Ezek 31:3, 6; Dan 4:12 ↩
32. Ezekiel 31:18 Jer 9:25, 26; Ezek 28:10; 32:19, 21 ↩
33. Ezekiel 31:18 Ps 52:7; Matt 13:19 ↩

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