10 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord [a]God, “Because [b]it is high in stature and has set its top among the [c]clouds, and its (A)heart is haughty in its loftiness, 11 therefore I will give it into the hand of a [d](B)despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have (C)driven it away. 12 (D)Alien (E)tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the (F)mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have (G)gone down from its shade and left it.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:10 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  2. Ezekiel 31:10 Lit you are
  3. Ezekiel 31:10 Or thick boughs
  4. Ezekiel 31:11 Or mighty one