9 I made it beautifulwith many branches,and all the trees of Eden in the garden of Godwanted to be like it.
10 “ ‘So this is what the Lord God says: The tree grew tall. Its top reached the clouds, and it became proud of its height.
11 So I handed it over to a mighty ruler of the nations for him to punish it. Because it was evil, I got rid of it.
12 The cruelest foreign nation cut it down and left it. The tree’s branches fell on the mountains and in all the valleys, and its broken limbs were in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth left the shade of that tree.
13 The birds of the sky live on the fallen tree. The wild animals live among the tree’s fallen branches.
14 So the trees that grow by the water will not be proud to be tall; they will not put their tops among the clouds. None of the trees that are watered well will grow that tall, because they all are meant to die and go under the ground. They will be with people who have died and have gone down to the place of the dead.
15 “ ‘This is what the Lord God says: On the day when the tree went down to the place of the dead, I made the deep springs cry loudly. I covered them and held back their rivers, and the great waters stopped flowing. I dressed Lebanon in black to show her sadness about the great tree, and all the trees in the countryside were sad about it.