Ezekiel 31:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 Thus says the Lord God:
On the day it went down to Sheol,
I made the deep close up
in mourning for it.
I restrained the currents of the deep,
and held back the many waters.
I darkened Lebanon because of it,
and all the trees of the field
languished because of it.
16 At the sound of its fall,
I made nations shudder,
When I cast it down to Sheol
with those who go down to the pit.
In the underworld
all the trees of Eden took comfort:
Lebanon’s choicest and best,
all that were fed by the waters.(A)
17 They too will go down to Sheol,
to those slain by the sword,
Its allies[a] who dwelt
in its shade among the nations.
Footnotes
- 31:17 Allies: lit., “arm.”
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