13 “But you said in your heart,
‘I will (A)ascend to heaven;
I will (B)raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.

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15 “Nevertheless you (A)will be thrust down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.

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20 then I will bring you down with those who (A)go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the (B)lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not [a]be inhabited; but I will set (C)glory in the land of the living.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:20 Or return

14 so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the [a]clouds, nor their [b]well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the (A)earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:14 Or thick boughs
  2. Ezekiel 31:14 Lit drinkers of water

18 “Son of man, (A)wail for the hordes of Egypt and (B)bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the (C)nether world, with those who go down to the pit;

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24 (A)Elam is there and all her hordes around her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who went down uncircumcised to the (B)lower parts of the earth, who instilled their terror in the (C)land of the living and (D)bore their disgrace with those who went down to the pit.

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