Ezekiel 31:14-16

Expanded Bible

¹⁴ So the trees that grow by the water will not ·be proud to be [or grow so] tall; they will not put their tops among the clouds. None of the trees that are watered well will grow that tall, because they all are ·meant [appointed; consigned] to die and go ·under the ground [or to the underworld; to the depths of the earth]. They will be with ·people who have died [mortals; ^Lsons of men] and ·have gone down [those who descend] to the ·place of the dead [^Lpit].

¹⁵ “‘This is what the Lord God says: On the day ·when the tree [^Lit; ^CAssyria] went down to ·the place of the dead [^LSheol], I ·made the deep springs cry loudly [or caused mourning]. I ·covered them [or closed the deep over it] and held back their rivers, and the great waters ·stopped flowing [were restrained]. I dressed Lebanon ·in black [or with gloom; ^Cin mourning for the great tree], and all the trees in the countryside ·were sad about it [wilted; fainted]. ¹⁶ I made the nations ·shake with fear [tremble; quake] at the sound of the tree falling when I brought it down to ·the place of the dead [Sheol]. It went to join those who ·have gone down [descend] to the ·grave [pit; ^Cthe trees represent other great nations that have fallen]. Then all the trees of Eden and the best and ·most beautiful [choicest] trees of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were comforted in the ·place of the dead below the earth [underworld; world below].