Tree Of Life Version

Ezekiel 31:11-18 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

11. I gave it into the hand of a ruler of nations, who surely dealt with it. I drove it out as befits its wickedness.

12. Ruthless barbarians from the nations cut it down. They cast it down on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell. Its branches have laid broken in all the streambeds of the land. All the people of the earth have come out from its shade and abandoned it.

13. All the birds of the sky lived on its fallen trunk and all the beasts of the field upon its fallen branches.

14. So none of all the trees by the water should exalt themselves in their height or set their top among the leafy boughs. None of their well-watered mighty ones should attain their height. For they have all been given to death, to the lowest regions under the earth, among the children of men who go down to the Pit.”

15. Thus says Adonai Elohim: “In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused the deep to mourn and cover itself for him. I restrained his rivers, so the great waters were stopped. I made Lebanon mourn for him. All the trees of the field wilt away for it.

16. I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the Pit. All the well-watered trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.

17. They also went down with him to Sheol, to those slain by the sword, those who were his mighty arm, who lived in his shadow among the nations.

18. ‘Who is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest parts of the earth. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’ This is Pharaoh and all his multitude.” It is a declaration of Adonai.