11 I determined to hand it over to a ruler of nations;(A) he would surely deal with it. I banished it because of its wickedness. 12 Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations,(B) cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it. 13 All the birds of the sky nested on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field were among its boughs.

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