15 “Thus says the Lord God: ‘In the day when it (A)went down to [a]hell, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it. I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were held back. I caused Lebanon to [b]mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it. 16 I made the nations (B)shake at the sound of its fall, when I (C)cast it down to [c]hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and (D)all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, (E)were comforted in the depths of the earth. 17 They also went down to hell with it, with those slain by the sword; and those who were its strong arm (F)dwelt in its shadows among the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:15 Or Sheol
  2. Ezekiel 31:15 Lit. be darkened
  3. Ezekiel 31:16 Or Sheol

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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