Context 13On its ruin all the birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches 14so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the clouds, nor their well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit. 15Thus says the Lord GOD, On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. 16I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath. 17They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations. 18To which among the trees of Eden are you thus equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes! declares the Lord GOD. Parallel Verses American Standard VersionUpon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches; Douay-Rheims Bible All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the field were among his branches. Darby Bible Translation Upon his fallen trunk do all the fowl of the heavens dwell, and all the beasts of the field are upon his branches: English Revised Version Upon his ruin all the fowls of the heaven shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: Webster's Bible Translation Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches: World English Bible On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches; Young's Literal Translation On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field, Library EzekielTo a modern taste, Ezekiel does not appeal anything like so powerfully as Isaiah or Jeremiah. He has neither the majesty of the one nor the tenderness and passion of the other. There is much in him that is fantastic, and much that is ritualistic. His imaginations border sometimes on the grotesque and sometimes on the mechanical. Yet he is a historical figure of the first importance; it was very largely from him that Judaism received the ecclesiastical impulse by which for centuries it was powerfully … John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Links Ezekiel 31:13 NIV • Ezekiel 31:13 NLT • Ezekiel 31:13 ESV • Ezekiel 31:13 NASB • Ezekiel 31:13 KJV • Ezekiel 31:13 Bible Apps • Ezekiel 31:13 Parallel • Bible Hub |