Ezekiel 31:10-12

New Catholic Bible

¹⁰ Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because it grew to a towering stature, with its top reaching the clouds, and then became arrogant with pride about its height, ¹¹ I handed it over to the prince of the nations.^[a] I empowered him to deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have rejected it.

¹² Foreigners from the most barbarous nations cut it down and abandoned it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and its boughs lie broken in every ravine throughout the land. All the peoples of the land fled from its shade and abandoned it.