EZEKIEL 31:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.”
On the day it went down to Sheol I caused all those who dwell in its shade to mourn for it—all the nations of the earth—and I made all the trees of the field wither because of it, reiterating the universal mourning, emphasizing that all dependent nations grieve Assyria's fall. The withering of trees suggests that the entire political ecosystem suffers from the loss of the imperial hegemon.
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