Ezekiel 31:12

Foreigners who were the terror of all the nations cut it off and left it to die. Its branches fell on the mountains and all the valleys, and its boughs lay broken in all the ravines of the land. Then all the nations on earth came out from under its shade and they went away from it. 1

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And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

In Context

11I have given it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations, to deal with it according to what its wickedness deserves. I have thrown it out.

13All the birds of the sky rested on the trunk of the fallen tree, 1 and every animal of the field came to its branches.

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Cross References

Isaiah 34:5For when my sword will have drunk its fill in heaven; 1 look, it will now come down on Edom, on the people I am setting apart for destruction. 1

Ezekiel 30:11He and his army with him, the terror of nations, will be brought to destroy the land; they will draw out their swords against Egypt and fill the land with those who have been killed.

Ezekiel 32:12I will cause your multitudes to fall by warriors' swords—each warrior a terror of nations. 1 These warriors will devastate the pride of Egypt and destroy all of its multitudes. 1

Ezekiel 35:8I will fill its mountains with those who were killed; on your high hills and valleys and in all your streams those who were killed by the sword will fall.

Daniel 4:11The tree grew and became strong. Its top reached to the heavens, and it could be seen to the ends of the whole earth.

Nahum 3:17Your princes are as many as the full-grown locusts, and your generals are like swarms of them 1 that camp in the walls on a cold day. 1 But when the sun rises they fly away to no one knows where. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 31:11-18

The King of Assyria's Downfall; The Fall of Assyria. ( b. c. 588.) 10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the… Read the whole commentary →

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