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Ezekiel 31:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches, "
Ezekiel 31:13
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11 I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow and have left him.
13 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches,
14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’
15 “The Lord GOD says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
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Ezekiel 31:1
"In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 31:2
"“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?"
Ezekiel 31:3
"Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs."
Ezekiel 31:4
"The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation. It sent out its channels to all the trees of the field."
Ezekiel 31:5
"Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out."
Ezekiel 31:6
"All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow."
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