Ezekiel 31:11

Ezekiel 31:11 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
• New International Version (NIV)I gave it into the hands of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside,
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.
• New King James Version (NKJV)therefore I will deliver it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations, and he shall surely deal with it; I have driven it out for its wickedness.

Context of Ezekiel 31:11

9I made it beautiful with its many limbs. All the trees of Eden in God’s garden envied it.’” 10Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because you were exalted in height —its top set up among leafy branches, its heart haughty in its height— I gave it into the hand of a ruler of nations, who surely dealt with it. I drove it out as befits its wickedness. 12Ruthless barbarians from the nations cut it down. They cast it down on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell. Its branches have laid broken in all the streambeds of the land. All the people of the earth have come out from its shade and abandoned it. 13All the birds of the sky lived on its fallen trunk and all the beasts of the field upon its fallen branches.

Ezekiel 31:11 word by word

וְאֶ֨תְּנֵ֔הוּ בְּיַ֖ד אֵ֣יל גּוֹיִ֑ם עָשׂ֤וֹ יַֽעֲשֶׂה֙ ל֔וֹ כְּרִשְׁע֖וֹ גֵּרַשְׁתִּֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I have therefore deliveredנָתַןnâthan · to give: giveH5414
• him into the handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
• of the mighty oneאֵל'êl · GodH410
• of the heathenגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
• he shall surelyעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• with him: I have driven him outגָּרַשׁgârash · to drive out: drive outH1644
• for his wickednessרֶ֫שַׁעresha‛ · wickednessH7562

Cross-references for Ezekiel 31:11

• Ezekiel 11:9“I will bring you out of the midst of it, give you into the hands of strangers and execute judgments against you.
• Ezekiel 21:31Thus says Adonai Elohim: “Remove the turban, take off the crown! This will no longer be the same. What is low will be exalted. What is high will be abased.
• Ezekiel 23:28For thus says Adonai Elohim: “Behold, I will give you into the hand of those you hate, into the hand of those you turned away from in disgust.
• Judges 16:23Now the Philistine lords gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate, as they said, “Our god has given our enemy Samson into our hand.”
• 1 Timothy 1:20Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander—whom I have handed over to satan to be disciplined not to blaspheme.
• Ezekiel 32:11For thus says Adonai Elohim: “The sword of the king of Babylon will come upon you.
• Jeremiah 25:9I will soon send for and bring all the families of the north”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“and I will send for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about, and I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, and a hissing, an enduring desolation.
• Daniel 5:18Your majesty, God Most High gave your father Nebuchadnezzar the kingdom, as well as greatness, glory, and splendor.
• Judges 1:7So Adoni-bezek said, “70 kings, having their thumbs and big toes cut off, used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” They brought him to Jerusalem and he died there.
• Matthew 7:1“Stop judging, so that you may not be judged.
• James 2:13For judgment is merciless to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Leviticus 18:24“Do not defile yourselves in any of these things, for in all of these ways the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
• Leviticus 20:22“Now you are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to dwell will not vomit you out.
• Deuteronomy 18:12For whoever does these things is an abomination to Adonai, and because of these abominations Adonai your God is driving them out from before you.
• Lamentations 1:21They have heard me groaning. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies heard of my distress, They rejoice that You have done it. May You bring about the day that You proclaimed, so they may become like me!
• Nahum 3:18Your shepherds have become drowsy, king of Assyria, your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the hills, with no one to gather them.

Commentaries on Ezekiel 31:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11The mighty one of the heathen - Nebuchadnezzar. It is worthy of notice, that Nebuchadnezzar, in the first year of his reign, rendered himself master of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire. See Sedar Olam. This happened about twenty years before Ezekiel delivered this prophecy; on this account, Ashshur, Ezekiel 31:3, may relate to the Assyrians, to whom it is possible the prophet here compares the Egyptians. But see the note on Ezekiel 31:3.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-14Verses 10-14 Assyria‘s fall. Ezekiel 31:11 More accurately: Therefore I will deliver him, etc … he shall surely deal with him. I have driven him out, etc. Ezekiel 31:14 Their trees - Rather, as in the margin, “standing unto themselves” meaning “standing in their own strength.” The clause will then run thus: “Neither all that drink water stand up” in their own strength. “All that drink water” means mighty princes to whom wealth and prosperity flow in. The…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 The king of Egypt resembled the king of Assyria in his greatness: here we see he resembles him in his pride. And he shall resemble him in his fall. His own sin brings his ruin. None of our comforts are ever lost, but what have been a thousand times forfeited. When great men fall, many fall with them, as many have fallen before them. The fall of proud men is for warning to others, to keep them humble. See how low Pharaoh lies; and see what all…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-11Egypt forgot that God created her beauty, and she became proud and arrogant. Like Tyre, such pride would lead to a fall. The God who placed Egypt in a high position would send a powerful nation to destroy it, as its wickedness deserved. I have banished it: The human agent would only be carrying out what God had already decided.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. Here the literal supersedes the figurative. shall surely deal with him--according to his own pleasure, and according to the Assyrian's (Sardanapalus) desert. Nebuchadnezzar is called "the mighty one" (El, a name of God), because he was God's representative and instrument of judgment (Da 2:37, 38).Read the comment

Topics related to Ezekiel 31:11

• Pride
• Self-Exaltation

In the dictionaries

• Egypt
• Fair
• Glory
• Isaiah

Commentaries on Ezekiel 31

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings