EZEKIEL 31:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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.”
All this is in order that no trees by the waters shall grow to towering height or set their top among the clouds, and no tree that drinks water shall rise up to them in height; for all of them are doomed to death, to the depths of the earth, among mortal men, with those who go down to the Pit, explaining the pedagogical purpose of Assyria's destruction: to teach other nations that cosmic aspirations end in death and Sheol. The repeated negations ('no trees...shall grow') establish universal principle: all aspirations to supremacy are ultimately futile. The descent into Sheol universalizes the judgment.
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