Thus says the Lord God: On the day the cedar went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and the great waters were checked; and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field withered because of it, describing cosmic mourning at Assyria's descent, with primordial waters responding to the death (closed deep, restrained rivers) and creation itself grieving (Lebanon mourning, trees withering). The anthropomorphization of nature suggests that Assyria's demise disrupts cosmic order.

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