Ezekiel 31:12
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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.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.
In other translations
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.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.
Hebrew words
וַיִּכְרְתֻהוּvaiyikhretuhuand they cut down itH3772זָרִיםzarimstrangersH2114עָרִיצֵי'aritzeiruthless [ones] ofH6184גוֹיִםgoyimnationsH1471וַיִּטְּשֻׁהוּvaiyiteshuhuand they abandoned itH5203אֶל־'el-toH413הֶהָרִיםheharimthe mountainsH2022וּבְכָל־uvekhol-and in allH3605גֵּאָיוֹתge'ayot[the] valleysH1516נָפְלוּnafeluthey fellH5307דָלִיּוֹתָיוdaliyotavbranches itsH1808וַתִּשָּׁבַרְנָהvatishavarnahand they were brokenH7665פֹארֹתָיוforotavbranches itsH6288בְּכֹלbekholin allH3605אֲפִיקֵי'afikei[the] ravines ofH650הָאָרֶץha'aretzthe landH776וַיֵּרְדוּvaiyereduand they went downH3381מִצִּלּוֹmitzilofrom shade itsH6738כָּל־kol-allH3605עַמֵּי'amei[the] peoples ofH5971הָאָרֶץha'aretzthe earthH776וַיִּטְּשֻׁהוּ׃vaiyiteshuhuand they abandoned itH5203
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