saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great, "heaping on the wood, kindling the fire, that the 'flesh may be con- sumed, and preparing the mixture, that the bones also may be burned; nthen will I set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the bottom thereof may burn, and that the impurity of it may be molten in it, that the filth of it may be consumed. 12It hath wearied it- self with toil; yet its great filth goeth not forth out of it, yea, its noisome filth. "Because of thy filthy lewdness, because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have satisfied My fury upon thee. 14I the LOED have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.J l5Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 16'Son of man, be- hold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke; yet neither shalt thou make lamentation nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. 17Sigh in silence; make no mourning for the dead, bind thy headtire upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thine upper lip, and eat not the bread of men.' 18So I spoke unto the people in the morn- ing, and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was com- manded. 19And the people said unto me: ' Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?7 20Then I said unto them: 'The word of the LORD came unto me, saying: ^Speak unto the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I EZEKIEL EZEKIEL will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the longing of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword. ^And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your upper lips, nor eat the bread of men; ^and your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet; ye shall not make lamentation nor weep; but ye shall pine away in your in- iquities, and moan one toward another. ^Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign; according to all that he hath done shall ye do; when this cometh, then shall ye know that I am the Lord GOD.
25And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and the yearning of their soul, their sons and their daughters, 26that in that day he that escapeth shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears? 27In that day shall thy mouth be opened together with him that is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb; so shalt thou be a sign Unto them; and they shall know that 1 am the LORD.'
O £ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 2'Son of man, set thy face toward the children of A/mm on, and prophesy against thorn, 3and say unto the children of Am- mon: Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus earth the Lord GOD* Be- cause thou saidst: Aha! against My sanctuary, when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity; therefore, behold, I will deliver thee to the children of the I east for a possession, and they shall set their encampments in thee, and make their dwellings in thee; they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk. 6And I will make Kabbah a pasture for camels, and the children of Ammon a couchmg-place for flocks; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 6For thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the disdain of thy soul against the land of Israel; ^therefore, behold, I stretch out My hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries; I will destroy thee, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
8Thus saith the Lord GOD: Be- cause that Moab and Seir dp say: Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the nations, therefore, be- hold, I will open the flank of Moab on the side of the cities, on the side of his cities which are on his frontiers, the beauteous country of Beth- jeshimoth, Baal-meon, andKiriathaim, 10together with the children of Ammon, unto the children of the east, and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations; nand I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
12Thus saith the Lord GOD: Be- cause that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking ven- geance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; "therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: I will stretch out My hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Temarr, even unto Dedan shall EZEKIEL they fall by the sword. 14And I will lay My vengeance upon Edom by the hand of My people Israel; and they shall do in Edom according to Mine anger and according to My fury; and they shall know My vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
15Thus saith the Lord GOD: Be- cause the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with disdain of soul to destroy, for the old hatred; therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will stretch out My hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea-coast. 17And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay My vengeance upon them.7 O£ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 2fSon of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem: Aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; She is turned unto me; I shall be filled with her that is laid waste; therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, 0 Tyre, And will cause many nations to come up against thee, " As the sea causeth its waves to come up.
4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, And break down her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her, And make her a bare rock.
5She shall be a place for the spread- ing of nets In the midst of the sea; For I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD; And she shall become a spoil to the nations. 6And her daughters that are in the field Shall be slain with the sword; And they shall know that I am the LORD.
7For thus saith the Lord GOD: Be- hold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebu- chadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horse- men, and a company, and much people.
8He shall slay with the sword Thy daughters in the field; And he shall make forts against thee, And cast up a mound against thee, And set up bucklers against thee. 9And he shall set his battering en- gines Against thy walls, And with his axes He shall break down thy towers. 10By reason of the abundance of his horses Their dust shall cover thee; At the noise of the horsemen, And of the wheels, and of the char- iots, Thy walls shall shake, When he shall enter into thy gates, As men enter into a city Wherein is made a breach. uWith the hoofs of his horses Shall he tread down all thy streets; He shall slay thy people with the sword, And the pillars of thy strength Shall go down to the ground. 12And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, And make a prey of thy merchan- dise; And they shall break down thy walls, EZEKIEL And destroy the houses of thy de- light; And thy stones and thy timber and thy dust Shall they lay in the midst of the waters. "And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease, And the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. 14And I will make thee a bare rock; Thou shalt be a place for the spread- ing of nets, Thou shalt be built no more; For I the LORD have spoken, Saith the Lord GOD. 15Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and strip off their richly woven gar- ments; they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every mo- ment, and be appalled at thee. 17And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee: How art thou destroyed, that wast peopled from the seas, The renowned city, That wast strong in the sea, Thou and thy inhabitants, That caused your terror to be On all that inhabit the earth! 18Now shall the isles tremble In the day of thy fall; Yea, the isles that are in the sea Shall be affrighted at thy going out. 19For thus saith the Lord GOD: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not in- habited; when J shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee; 20then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, like the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living; *! will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.' O fj Moreover the word of the LORD * came unto me, saying: 2fAnd thou, son of man, take up a lamenta- tion for Tyre, 3and say unto Tyre, that dwelleth at the entry of the sea, that is the merchant of the peoples unto many isles: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou, 0 Tyre, hast said: I am of perfect beauty. *Thy borders are in the heart of the Thy builders have perfected thy beauty. 60f cypress-trees from Seniiv have they fashioned All thy planks; They have taken cedars from Leb- anon To make masts for thee. 60f the oaks of Bashan Have they made thine oars; Thy deck have they made of ivory inlaid" in larch, From the isles of the Kittites. 70f'fine linen with richly woven work from Egypt Was thy sail, That ^ it might be to thee for an ensign: Blue and purple from the isles of Elishah Was thine awning. 8The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad EZEKIEL Were thy rowers; Thy wise men, 0 Tyre, were in thee, They were thy pilots.
9The elders of Gebal and the wise men thereof Were in thee thy calkers; All the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee To exchange thy merchandise. 10Persia and Lud and Put were in thine army, Thy men of war; They hanged the shield and helmet in thee, They set forth thy comeliness. uThe men of Arvad and Helech were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadim were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have perfected thy beauty. 12Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares. 13Ja- van, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy traffickers; they traded the per- sons of men and vessels of brass for thy merchandise. 14They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and horsemen and mules. 15The men of Dedan were thy traf- fickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand; they brought thee as tribute horns of ivory and ebony. I6Aram was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy wealth; they traded for thy wares with carbuncles, purple, and richly woven work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies. 17Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers; they traded for thy merchandise wheat of Minnith, and balsam, and honey, and oil, and balm. 18Damascus was thy merchant for the multitude of thy wealth, by reason of the multitude of all riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool. 19Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for thy wares; massive iron, cassia, and calamus, were among thy merchandise. t20Dedan was thy traf- ficker in precious cloths for riding. 21Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of thy hand; in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they thy merchants. ^The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy traffickers; they traded for thy wares with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. ^Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur was as thine apprentice in traffic. ^These were thy traffickers in gorgeous fabrics, in wrappings of blue and richly woven work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and cedar-lined, among thy merchandise. 25The ships of Tarshish brought thee tribute for thy merchandise; So wast thou replenished, and made very heavy In the heart of the seas. 26Thy rowers have brought thee Into great waters; The east wind hath broken thee In the heart of the seas. 27Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, Thy mariners, and thy pilots, Thy calkers, and the exchangers of thy merchandise, And all thy men of war, that are in thee, With all thy company which is in the midst of thee, Shall fall into the heart of the seas In the day of thy rum., 28At the sound of the cry of thy pilots The waves shall shake. 29And all that handle the oar, The mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, EZEKIEL Shall come down from their ships, They shall stand upon the land, 30And shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, And shall cry bitterly, And shall cast up dust upon their heads, They shall roll themselves in the ashes; 33 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, And gird them with sackcloth, And they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul With bitter lamentation. 32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, And lament over thee: Who was there like Tyre, fortified In the midst of the sea? ^When thy wares came forth out of the seas, Thou didst fill many peoples; With the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise Didst thou enrich the kings of the earth. 34Now that thou art broken by the seas In the depths of the waters, And thy merchandise and all thy company^ Are fallen in the midst of thee, 35A11 the inhabitants of the isles Are appalled at thee, And their kings are horribly afraid, They are troubled in their coun- tenance; 36The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; Thou art become a terror, And never^shalt be any more.' OQ And the word of the LORD came ^° unto me, saying: 2'Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus gaith the Lord GOD: Because thy heart is lifted up, And thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, In the heart of the seas; Yet thou art man, and not God, Though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God — 3Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel!
There is no secret that they can hide from thee I 4By thy wisdom and by thy discern- ment Thou hast gotten thee riches, And hast gotten gold and silver Into thy treasures; 5In thy great wisdom by thy traf- fic Hast thou increased thy riches, And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches — therefore thus saith the Lord GOD- Because thou hast set thy heart As the heart of God; therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, The terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they shall defile thy bright- ness.
8They shall bring thee down to the pit; And thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, In the heart of the seas. 9Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee: I am God?
But thou art man, and not God, In the hand of them that defile thee. 10Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers; For I have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.'
"Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 12'Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of EZEKIEL Tyre, and say unto him: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou seal most ac- curate, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty, 13thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were pre- pared. 14Thou wast the far-covering cherub; and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire. 15Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unright- eousness was found in thee. 16By the multitude of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the moun- tain of God; and I have destroyed thee, 0 covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wis- dom by reason of thy brightness; I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may gaze upon thee. 18By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteous- ness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee, it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19A11 they that know thee ampng the peoples shall be ap- palled at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any moire/ 20And the word of the LORD came unto 'me, saying: 21'Son of man, set thy face toward Zidon, and prophesy against it, 22and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, 0 Zidon, And I will be glorified in the midst of thee; And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sancti- fied in her. ^For I will send into her pestilence And blood in her streets; And the wounded shall fall in the midst of her By the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. ^And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a piercing thorn of any that are round about them, that did have them in disdain; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
25Thus saith the Lord GOD: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanc- tified in them in the sight of the na- tions, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob. 26And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell safely; when I have executed judg- ments upon all those that have them in disdain round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God/ O Q In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 2'Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt; 3speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh King of Egypt, EZEKIEL The great dragon that lieth In the midst of his rivers, That hath said: My river is mine own, And I have made it for myself.
4And I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales; and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales. *And will cast thee into the wilderness, Thee and all the fish of thy rivers; Thou shalt fall upon the open field; Thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered; To the beasts of the earth and to the fowls of the heaven Have I given thee for food. 6And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know That I am the LORD, Because they have been a staff of reed To the house of Israel. When they 'take hold of thee with the hand, thou dost break, And rend all their shoulders; And when they lean upon thee, thou breakest, And makest all at a stand.
their loins to be 8Theref ore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast. 9And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the LORD; because he hath said: The river is mine, and 1 have made it. 10Therefore, behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from Migdol to Syene even unto the bbrder of Ethiopia. 11No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years. 12And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
"For thus saith the Lord Gor>: At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples whith- er they were scattered; 14and I will turn the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their origin; and they shall be there a lowly king- dom. 15It shall be the lowliest of the kingdoms, neither shall it any more lift itself up above the nations; and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. 16And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn after them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.'
17And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 18' Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyre; every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled; yet had he no wages, nor tiis army, from Tyre, for the service bhat he had served against it; "there- fore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her abundance, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20I have given him the land of Egypt as his hire for which he served, be- EZEKIEL cause they wrought for Me, saith the Lord GOD.
21In that day will I cause a horn to shoot up unto the house of Israel, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.' O A And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying. 2'Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Wail ye: Woe worth the day!
3For the day is near, Even the day of the LORD is near, A day of clouds, it shall be the time of the nations.
4And a sword shall come upon Egypt, And convulsion shall be in Ethio- pia, When the slain shall fall in Egypt; And they shall take away her abundance, And her foundations shall be broken down.
5Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
6Thus saith the LORD* They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, And the pride of her power shall come down; From Migdol to Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, Saith the Lord GOD. 7And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, And her cities shall be in the midst 6f the cities that are wasted. 8And they shall know that I am the LORD, When I have set a fire in Egypt, And all her helpers are destroyed. 9In that day shall messengers go forth from before Me in ships To make the confident Ethiopians afraid; And there shall come convulsion upon them in the day of Egypt; For, lo, it cometh.
10Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, By the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. uHe and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, Shall be brought in to destroy the land; And they shall draw their swords against Egypt, And fill the land with the slain. 12 And I will make the rivers dry, And will give the land over into the hand of evil men; And I will make the land desolate, And all that is therein, by the hand of strangers; I the LORD have spoken it.
13Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will also destroy the idols, And I will cause the things of nought to cease from Noph; And there shall be no more a prince out of the land of Egypt; And I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
14And I will make Pathros desolate, And will set a fire in Zoan, And will execute judgments hi No. 16And I will pour My fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; And I will cut off the multitude of No.
16And I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin shall be in great convulsion, And No shall be rent asunder; EZEKIEL And in Noph shall come adversaries in the day-time. 17The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword; And these cities shall go into cap- tivity. l8At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, When I shall break there the yokes of Egypt, And the pride of her power shall cease in her; As for her, a cloud sHall cover her, And her daughters shall go into captivity. 19Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt; And they shall know that I fl.m the LOED.'
20And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LOED came unto me, saying: 21'Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it hath not been bound up to be healed, to put a roller, that it be bound up and wax strong, that it hold the sword. ^Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and wifl break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. ^And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the coun- tries. MAnd I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put My sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with' the groan- ings of a deadly wounded man. 25And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the LOED, when I shall put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. 26And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am the LOED.' O~j And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LOED came unto me, saying: 2<Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatbehold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon, With fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, And of a high stature; And its top was among the thick boughs.
4The waters nourished it, The deep made it to grow; Her rivers ran round About her plantation, And she sent out her conduits Unto all the trees of the field. 5Therefore its stature was exalted Above all the trees of the field; And its boughs were multiplied, And its branches became long, Because of the multitude of waters, when it shot them forth. 6A11 the fowls of heaven made Their nests in its boughs, And all the beasts of the field did bring forth their young Under its branches, And under its shadow dwelt All great nations. 7Thus was it fair in its greatness, In the length of its branches; For its root was By many waters. 8The cedars in the garden of God EZEKIEL Could not Mde it; The cypress-trees were not Like its boughs, And the plane-trees were not As its branches; Nor was any tree in the garden of God Like unto it in its beauty 9I made it fair By the multitude of its branches; So that all the trees of Eden, That were in the garden of God, envied it.
10Theref ore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; nl do even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I do drive him out accord- ing to his wickedness. ^And strangers, the terrible of the nations, do cut him off, and cast him down; upon the mountains and in all the val- leys his branches are fallen, and his boughs he broken in all the channels of the land; and all the peoples of the earth do go down from his shadow, and do leave him. 13Upon his car- cass all the fowls of the heaven do dwell, and upon his branches are all the beasts of the field; 14to the end that none of all the trees by the wa- ters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up in their height, even 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.