Ezekiel 31:13

31:13 On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals ¹  will walk ²  on its branches.

Ezekiel 17:6

17:6 It sprouted and became a vine,

spreading low to the ground; ³ 

its branches turning toward him, ⁴  its roots were under itself. ⁵ 

So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.

Ezekiel 31:5-6

31:5 Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large and its branches grew long,

because of the plentiful water in its shoots. ⁶ 

31:6 All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs;

under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,

in its shade all the great ⁷  nations lived.

Ezekiel 31:8

31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,

nor could the fir trees ⁸  match its boughs;

the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;

no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:12

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 ⁹  have departed ¹⁰  from its shade and left it.

¹ tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.

² tn Heb “be.”

³ tn Heb “short of stature.”

⁴ tn That is, the eagle.

⁵ tn Or “him,” i.e., the eagle.

⁵ tn Heb “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).

⁷ tn Or “many.”

⁹ tn Or “cypress trees” (cf. NASB, NLT); NIV “pine trees.”

¹¹ tn Or “earth” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

¹² tn Heb “gone down.”