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13 All the birds of the sky lived on its fallen trunk and all the beasts of the field upon its fallen branches.

14 So none of all the trees by the water should exalt themselves in their height or set their top among the leafy boughs. None of their well-watered mighty ones should attain their height.

For they have all been given to death, to the lowest regions under the earth, among the children of men who go down to the Pit.”

15 Thus says Adonai Elohim:
“In the day when he went down to Sheol
I caused the deep to mourn
and cover itself for him.
I restrained his rivers,
so the great waters were stopped.
I made Lebanon mourn for him.
All the trees of the field wilt away for it.

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