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31:1  It was in the eleventh year [C since King Jehoiachin’s exile (1:2)], in the third month, on the first day of the month [C June 21, 587 bc]. The ·Lord spoke his word [L word of the Lord came] to me, saying:
31:2  “·Human [T Son of man; 2:1], say to the king of Egypt and his people: ‘·No one [L Who…?] is like you in your greatness.
31:3  [L Look; T Behold] Assyria was once like a cedar tree in Lebanon with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It was ·very tall [a towering height]; its top was among the clouds.
31:4  Much water made the tree grow; the deep springs made it tall. Rivers flowed around ·the bottom of the tree [its place of planting] and sent their ·streams [channels] to all other trees ·in the countryside [of the field].
31:5  So the tree was taller than all the other trees ·in the countryside [of the field]. Its ·limbs [boughs] became large and its branches long because of ·so much [abundant] water.
31:6  All the birds of the ·sky [heavens] made their nests in the tree’s ·limbs [boughs; Dan. 4:12, 21]. And all the ·wild animals [beasts of the field] gave birth under its branches. All great nations lived in the tree’s shade.
31:7  So the tree was great and beautiful, with its long branches, because its roots reached down to ·much [abundant] water.
31:8  The cedar trees in the garden of God [C Eden] were not as great as it was. The ·pine [fir; juniper] trees ·did not have such great [could not equal its] ·limbs [boughs]. The plane trees did not have such branches. No tree in the garden of God was as beautiful as this tree.
31:9  I made it beautiful with many branches, and all the trees of Eden in the garden of God ·wanted to be like [envied] it.
31:10  “‘So this is what the Lord God says: The tree grew tall. Its top reached the clouds, and it became proud of its height.
31:11  So I handed it ·over to [L into the hand of] a mighty ruler of the nations for him to ·punish [deal with] it. Because it was ·evil [wicked], I ·got rid of it [threw it out; cast it aside].
31:12  The ·cruelest [most ruthless] foreign nation cut it down and left it. The tree’s branches fell on the mountains and in all the valleys, and its ·broken limbs [boughs] were in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth left the shade of that tree.
31:13  The birds of the ·sky [heavens] live on the fallen tree. The wild animals live among the tree’s fallen branches.
31:14  So the trees that grow by the water will not ·be proud to be [or grow so] tall; they will not put their tops among the clouds. None of the trees that are watered well will grow that tall, because they all are ·meant [appointed; consigned] to die and go ·under the ground [or to the underworld; to the depths of the earth]. They will be with ·people who have died [mortals; L sons of men] and ·have gone down [those who descend] to the ·place of the dead [L pit].
31:15  “‘This is what the Lord God says: On the day ·when the tree [L it; C Assyria] went down to ·the place of the dead [L Sheol], I ·made the deep springs cry loudly [or caused mourning]. I ·covered them [or closed the deep over it] and held back their rivers, and the great waters ·stopped flowing [were restrained]. I dressed Lebanon ·in black [or with gloom; C in mourning for the great tree], and all the trees in the countryside ·were sad about it [wilted; fainted].
31:16  I made the nations ·shake with fear [tremble; quake] at the sound of the tree falling when I brought it down to ·the place of the dead [Sheol]. It went to join those who ·have gone down [descend] to the ·grave [pit; C the trees represent other great nations that have fallen]. Then all the trees of Eden and the best and ·most beautiful [choicest] trees of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were comforted in the ·place of the dead below the earth [underworld; world below].
31:17  These trees had also gone down with the great tree to ·the place of the dead [L Sheol]. They joined those who were killed ·in war [L by the sword] and those among the nations who had lived under the great tree’s shade.
31:18  “‘·So no tree [L Which of the trees…?] in Eden is equal to you [C Egypt], in ·greatness [glory; splendor] and ·honor [greatness; majesty], but you will go down to join the trees of Eden in the ·place below the earth [underworld]. You will lie among ·unclean people [L the uncircumcised], with those who were killed ·in war [L by the sword]. “‘This is about Pharaoh and all his ·people [hordes; armies], says the Lord God.’”