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Fear at Assyria’s Fall

15 “This is what the Lord God says: ‘On the day that it descended into Sheol,[a] I shut down its water supplies, covered over its deep water, and shut down its rivers. As a result its abundant water sources dried up, and I caused Lebanon to mourn for it. All the trees of the field wilted because of it. 16 I made the nations tremble when they heard that Assyria[b] was falling, descending into Sheol[c] to join those who go down into the Pit.[d] Then all of the trees of Eden in the world below were comforted, including the choicest and best of Lebanon, all of whom were well-watered. 17 They also went down with it into Sheol,[e] to those who had been killed violently[f] and to those who had trusted in its strength by living in its shadow among the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:15 I.e. the realm of the afterlife
  2. Ezekiel 31:16 Lit. he
  3. Ezekiel 31:16 I.e. the realm of the afterlife
  4. Ezekiel 31:16 I.e. the realm of punishment in the afterlife
  5. Ezekiel 31:17 I.e. the realm of the afterlife
  6. Ezekiel 31:17 Lit. killed by the sword