31:12 Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land 1 have departed 2 from its shade and left it.
31:13 On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals 3 will walk 4 on its branches.
1 tn Or “earth” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).
2 tnHeb “gone down.”
3 tnHeb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.