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 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. ³ 

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 ⁴  nations lived.

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 ⁵  have departed ⁶  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 “when it sends forth.” Repointing the consonants of the Masoretic text would render the proposed reading “shoots” (cf. NRSV).

⁵ tn Or “many.”

⁷ tn Or “earth” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

⁸ tn Heb “gone down.”