t was near great waters.

31:8. The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir
trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared
with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in
his beauty.

31:9. For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all
the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him.

31:10. Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because he was exalted in
height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up
in his height:

31:11. I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the
nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his
wickedness.

I have delivered... Here the time past is put for the future, i. e.,
I shall deliver.--Ibid. The mighty one, etc... Viz., Nabuchodonosor, who
conquered both the Assyrians and Egyptians.

31:12. And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him
down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in
every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the
country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow,
and leave him.

31:13. All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts
of the field were among his branches.

31:14. For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt
themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick
branches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand up
in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest
parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that
go down into the pit.

31:15. Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I
brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its
rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all
the trees of the field trembled.

31:16. I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought
him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees
of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened
with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.

31:17. For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are
slain by the sword; and the arm of every one shall sit down under his
shadow in the midst of the nations.

31:18. To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the