Ezekiel 31:10-12

Contemporary English Version

¹⁰ King of Egypt, now listen to what I, the Lord God, am saying about that tree:

The tree grew so tall that it reached the sky^[a] and became very proud and arrogant. ¹¹ So I, the Lord God, will reject the tree and hand it over to a foreign ruler, who will punish it for its wickedness. ¹² Cruel foreigners will chop it down and leave it wherever it falls. Branches and broken limbs will be scattered over the mountains and in the valleys. The people living in the shade of those branches will go somewhere else.