Ezekiel 31:10-12

New International Reader's Version

¹⁰ So the Lord and King says, “The great cedar tree grew very high. Its top was above all the leaves. It was proud of how tall it was. ¹¹ So I handed it over to the Babylonian ruler of the nations. I wanted him to punish it because it was so evil. I decided to get rid of it. ¹² The Babylonians cut it down and left it there. They did not show it any pity at all. Some of its branches fell on the mountains. Others fell in all the valleys. The branches lay broken in all the stream beds in the land. All the nations on earth came out from under its shade. And they went on their way.