10 King of Egypt, now listen to what I, the Lord God, am saying about that tree:The tree grew so tall that it reached the sky and became very proud and arrogant.
11 So I, the Lord God, will reject the tree and hand it over to a foreign ruler, who will punish it for its wickedness.
12 Cruel foreigners will chop it down and leave it wherever it falls. Branches and broken limbs will be scattered over the mountains and in the valleys. The people living in the shade of those branches will go somewhere else.
13 Birds will then nest on the stump of the fallen tree, and wild animals will trample its branches.
14 Never again will any tree dare to grow as tall as this tree, no matter how much water it has. Every tree must die, just as humans die and go down to the world of the dead.
15 On the day this tree dies and goes to the world below, I, the Lord God, will command rivers and streams to mourn its death. Every underground spring of water and every river will stop flowing. The mountains in Lebanon will be covered with darkness as a sign of their sorrow, and all the trees in the forest will wither.
16 This tree will crash to the ground, and I will send it to the world below. Then the nations of the earth will tremble.The trees from Eden and the choice trees from Lebanon are now in the world of the dead, and they will be comforted when this tree falls.