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Ezekiel 31:12

Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

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ASV

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 watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיִּכְרְתֻ֧הוּvai.yikh.re.Tu.huand they cut down itH3772 →
זָרִ֛יםza.RimstrangersH2114 →
עָרִיצֵ֥י'a.ri.Tzeiruthless [ones] ofH6184 →
גוֹיִ֖םgo.YimnationsH1471 →
וַֽיִּטְּשֻׁ֑הוּvai.yi.te.Shu.huand they abandoned itH5203 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
הֶ֠הָרִיםHe.ha.rimthe mountainsH2022 →
וּבְכָל־u.ve.Khol-and in allH3605 →
גֵּ֨אָי֜וֹתge.'a.Yot[the] valleysH1516 →
נָפְל֣וּna.fe.Luthey fellH5307 →
דָלִיּוֹתָ֗יוda.li.yo.Tavbranches itsH1808 →
וַתִּשָּׁבַ֤רְנָהva.ti.sha.Var.nahand they were brokenH7665 →
פֹֽארֹתָיו֙fo.ro.Tavbranches itsH6288 →
בְּכֹל֙be.Kholin allH3605 →
אֲפִיקֵ֣י'a.fi.Kei[the] ravines ofH650 →
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
וַיֵּרְד֧וּvai.ye.re.Duand they went downH3381 →
מִצִּלּ֛וֹmi.tzi.Lofrom shade itsH6738 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
עַמֵּ֥י'a.Mei[the] peoples ofH5971 →
הָאָ֖רֶץha.'A.retzthe earthH776 →
וַֽיִּטְּשֻֽׁהוּ׃Vai.yi.te.Shu.huand they abandoned itH5203 →

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Ezekiel 28:7behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.Ezekiel 35:8I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.Ezekiel 30:11He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.Nahum 3:17–18Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.Habakkuk 1:6For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.Ezekiel 32:5I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.Ezekiel 32:12I will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.Ezekiel 39:4On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.Ezekiel 32:4–5I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.Ezekiel 35:5Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,Daniel 4:12–14Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit was abundant, and upon it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, in its branches the birds of the air nested, and from it every creature was fed.Habakkuk 1:11Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”Isaiah 34:5–7When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.Revelation 17:16And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.Isaiah 21:1This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.Ezekiel 30:12I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.Ezekiel 29:11No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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