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 ¹  have departed ²  from its shade and left it.

Ezekiel 32:4

32:4 I will leave you on the ground,

I will fling you on the open field,

I will allow ³  all the birds of the sky to settle ⁴  on you,

and I will permit ⁵  all the wild animals ⁶  to gorge themselves on you.

Ezekiel 29:5

29:5 I will leave you in the wilderness,

you and all the fish of your waterways;

you will fall in the open field and will not be gathered up or collected. ⁷ 

I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the skies.

[31:12]  ¹ tn Or “earth” (KJV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[31:12]  ² tn Heb “gone down.”

[32:4]  ³ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “live.”

[32:4]  ⁵ tn Or “cause.”

[32:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.

[29:5]  ⁵ tc Some Hebrew mss, the Targum, and the LXX read “buried.”