¹² and the most ruthless of foreign nations^(A) cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys;^(B) its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.^(C)

¹³ All the birds settled on the fallen tree, and all the wild animals lived among its branches.^(A)