Ezekiel 31:8-18
cedars <0730> [cedars.]
tree <06086> [nor any.]
made <06213> [made.]
trees <06086> [all the trees.]
envied <07065> [envied.]
says <0559> [Therefore.]
The allegory and its interpretation are here combined; and the Assyrian monarch, though already destroyed, is poetically addressed.
tall <01361> [Because.]
proud <03824> [and his.]
gave <05414> [delivered.]
leader <0410> [the mighty.]
Nebuchadnezzar, the subverter of the Assyrian empire.
has <06213> [he shall surely deal with him. Heb. in doing he shall do unto him.]
out <01644> [I have driven.]
Foreigners <02114> [strangers.]
mountains <02022> [upon.]
down <03381> [gone.]
trees <06086> [the end.]
high ........ appointed <05975 01363> [stand up in their height. or, stand upon themselves for their height. delivered.]
lower parts <08482> [the nether.]
lament <056> [I caused a.]
The deep and all the mighty rivers which cherished this fair tree are here described as mourning at his downfall: they stop their usual courses to bewail his fate, and Lebanon with all its stately trees, (his confederates and allies,) sympathise with him in his misfortunes.
black <06937> [mourn. Heb. be black.]
nations <01471> [made.]
down ........ descend <03381> [When I.]
trees <06086> [and all.]
comforted <05162> [shall be comforted.]
went down <03381> [went.]
allies <02220> [that were.]
lived <03427> [dwelt.]
like <01819> [To whom.]
Pharaoh is here called upon to look in his mirror, and see the termination of his glory and greatness.
like <01819> [art thou.]
trees .................. trees <06086> [with the.]
lie <07901> [thou shalt.]
Pharaoh <06547> [This is.]
That is, the judgment that befel the king of Assyria, is an exact representation of the destruction that remains for Pharaoh and all his people.
