Yehezkiel 31:15-16

31:15 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On the day it ¹  went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. ²  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. ³  Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.

Yehezkiel 32:21

32:21 The bravest of the warriors will speak to him from the midst of Sheol along with his allies, saying: ‘The uncircumcised have come down; they lie still, killed by the sword.’

Yehezkiel 32:24

32:24 “Elam is there with all her hordes around her grave; all of them struck down by the sword. They went down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, those who spread terror in the land of the living. Now they will bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 32:30

32:30 “All the leaders of the north are there, along with all the Sidonians; despite their might they have gone down in shameful terror with the dead. They lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and bear their shame with those who descend to the pit.

Yehezkiel 38:12

38:12 to loot and plunder, to attack ⁴  the inhabited ruins and the people gathered from the nations, who are acquiring cattle and goods, who live at the center ⁵  of the earth.”

[31:15]  ¹ tn Or “he.”

[31:15]  ² tn Heb “I caused lamentation.” D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:194-95) proposes an alternative root which would give the meaning “I gated back the waters,” i.e., shut off the water supply.

[31:16]  ³ sn For the expression “going down to the pit,” see Ezek 26:20; 32:18, 24, 29.

[38:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “to turn your hand against.”

[38:12]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew term occurs elsewhere only in Judg 9:37. Perhaps it means “high point, top.”