¹⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it^[a] towered high and set its top among the clouds and its heart was proud of its height,^{(A) 11} I gave it into the hand of the prince of the nations; he has dealt with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.^{(B) 12} Foreigners from the most terrible of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in all the watercourses of the land, and all the peoples of the earth went away from its shade and left it.^(C)

¹⁴ All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height.

¹⁰ Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.^(A)