15 ‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I (A)caused lamentations; I closed the [a]deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon [b]mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. 16 I made the nations (B)quake at the sound of its fall when I made it (C)go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [c]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of (D)Lebanon, were (E)comforted in the earth beneath. 17 They also (F)went down with it to Sheol to those who were (G)slain by the sword; and those who were its [d]strength lived (H)under its shade among the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:15 I.e. subterranean waters
  2. Ezekiel 31:15 Lit be darkened
  3. Ezekiel 31:16 Lit drinkers of water
  4. Ezekiel 31:17 Lit arm

15 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away.(A) 16 I made the nations tremble(B) at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees(C) of Eden,(D) the choicest and best of Lebanon, the well-watered trees, were consoled(E) in the earth below.(F) 17 They too, like the great cedar, had gone down to the realm of the dead, to those killed by the sword,(G) along with the armed men who lived in its shade among the nations.

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