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10 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because[a] it was tall in height and it set its treetop between[b] thick clouds, and he took pride in his tallness,[c] 11 then[d] I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he dealt thoroughly[e] with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out. 12 And strangers cut it off, the most ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all of the valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:10 Literally “because that”
  2. Ezekiel 31:10 Hebrew “to between”
  3. Ezekiel 31:10 Literally “and his heart he raised in his tallness”
  4. Ezekiel 31:11 Or “and”
  5. Ezekiel 31:11 Literally “doing he did”