10:18 The splendor of his forest and his orchard
will be completely destroyed, 1
as when a sick man’s life ebbs away. 2
14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, 3
as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, 4
‘Since you fell asleep, 5
no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ 6
31:3 Consider Assyria, 7 a cedar in Lebanon, 8
with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade,
and extremely tall;
its top reached into the clouds.
31:4 The water made it grow;
underground springs made it grow tall.
Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted,
while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field. 9
31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,
because of the plentiful water in its shoots. 10
31:6 All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs;
under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,
in its shade all the great 11 nations lived.
31:7 It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches;
for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.
31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,
nor could the fir trees 12 match its boughs;
the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;
no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.
31:9 I made it beautiful with its many branches;
all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.
31:10 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height, 31:11 I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly, 13 as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out. 31:12 Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land 14 have departed 15 from its shade and left it. 31:13 On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals 16 will walk 17 on its branches. 31:14 For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. 18 For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; 19 they will be among mere mortals, 20 with those who descend to the pit.
31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it 21 went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. 22 I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it. 31:16 I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. 23 Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below. 31:17 Those who lived in its shade, its allies 24 among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword. 31:18 Which of the trees of Eden was like you in majesty and loftiness? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword! This is what will happen to Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the sovereign Lord.’”
While I was watching,
there was a tree in the middle of the land. 28
It was enormously tall. 29
4:11 The tree grew large and strong.
Its top reached far into the sky;
it could be seen 30 from the borders of all the land. 31
4:12 Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful;
on it there was food enough for all.
Under it the wild animals 32 used to seek shade,
and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest.
All creatures 33 used to feed themselves from it.
4:13 While I was watching in my mind’s visions 34 on my bed,
a holy sentinel 35 came down from heaven.
4:14 He called out loudly 36 as follows: 37
‘Chop down the tree and lop off its branches!
Strip off its foliage
and scatter its fruit!
Let the animals flee from under it
and the birds from its branches!
11:1 Open your gates, Lebanon,
so that the fire may consume your cedars. 41
11:2 Howl, fir tree,
because the cedar has fallen;
the majestic trees have been destroyed.
Howl, oaks of Bashan,
because the impenetrable forest has fallen.