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Ezekiel 31:11 (CSB)

I determined to hand it over to a ruler of nations; he would surely deal with it. I banished it because of its wickedness.
 

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Ezekiel 31:12 (CSB)

Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations, cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
 

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Ezekiel 31:13 (CSB)

All the birds of the sky nested on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field were among its boughs.
 

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Ezekiel 31:14 (CSB)

This happened so that no trees planted beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and so that no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the underworld, among the people who descend to the Pit.
 

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Ezekiel 31:15 (CSB)

15 “‘This is what the Lord God says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. I closed off the underground deep because of it: I held back the rivers of the deep, and its abundant water was restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.
 

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Ezekiel 31:16 (CSB)

I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol to be with those who descend to
the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were comforted in the underworld.
 

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Ezekiel 31:17 (CSB)

They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.
 

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Ezekiel 31:18 (CSB)

“‘Who then are you like in glory and greatness among Eden’s trees? You also will be brought down to the underworld to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his hordes. This is the declaration of the Lord God.’”
 

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Ezekiel 32:1 (RSV)

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
 

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Ezekiel 32:2 (RSV)

“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

“You consider yourself a lion among the nations,
but you are like a dragon in the seas;
you burst forth in your rivers,
trouble the waters with your feet,
and foul their rivers.
 

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Ezekiel 32:3 (RSV)

Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples; and I will haul you up in my dragnet.
 

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Ezekiel 32:4 (NIV)

I will throw you on the land and hurl you on the open field I will let all the birds of the sky settle on you
and all the wild animals gorge themselves on you.
 

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Ezekiel 32:5 (NIV)

I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
 

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Ezekiel 32:6 (NIV)

I will drench the land with your flowing blood all the way to the mountains, and the ravines will be filled with your flesh.
 

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Ezekiel 32:7 (NIV)

When I snuff you out, I will cover the heaven and darken their stars;
I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
 

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Ezekiel 32:8 (NIV)

All the shining lights in the heavens I will darken over you; I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Sovereign Lord.
 

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Ezekiel 32:9 (NIV)

I will trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring about your destruction among the nations,
among lands you have not known.
 

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Ezekiel 32:10 (NIV)

I will cause many peoples to be appalled at you,
and their kings will shudder with horror because of you when I brandish
my sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.
 

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Ezekiel 32:11 (ISV)

“This is what the Lord God says: ‘The army of the king of Babylon will attack you.
 

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Ezekiel 32:12 (ISV)

I’m going to make your gangs die using the weapons of valiant warriors, all of whom are ruthless people.
‘They will devastate the majesty of Egypt, destroying all of its hordes.