9. As for its beauty—I made it so, with its abundant foliage.All the trees of Eden envied it,all that were in God’s garden.
10. So now the Lord God proclaims:Consider the fate of those who tower high!When it allowed its branches to reach up among the clouds,it became arrogant.
11. So I handed it overto the most powerful nation,who continually acted treacherously against it.I banished it!
12. Foreigners, the worst of the nations, cut it downand left it to lie among the hills.All its branches fell among the valleys,and its boughs were broken off in the earth’s deep ravines.All the earth’s peoples departed from its shade and abandoned it.
13. On its trunk roost all the birds in the sky,and on its boughs lie all the beasts of the field.
14. All this has happened so that no other well-watered tree would tower high or allow its branches to reach among the clouds. Nor would their leaders achieve the towering stature of such well-watered trees. Certainly, all of them are consigned to death, to the world below, among human beings who go down to the pit.
15. The Lord God proclaims: On the day that it went down to the underworld, I caused mourning. I blocked off the deep sea against it. I dried up its rivers and restrained the mighty waters. I made Lebanon go into mourning for it, and all the trees of the field languished on its account.
16. When it was felled, the nations quaked at the sound. When I cast it down into the underworld, with those who go down to the pit, all the trees of Eden were comforted in the world below, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all the trees that depended on water.