12. Cruel foreigners will chop it down and leave it wherever it falls. Branches and broken limbs will be scattered over the mountains and in the valleys. The people living in the shade of those branches will go somewhere else.
13. Birds will then nest on the stump of the fallen tree, and wild animals will trample its branches.
14. Never again will any tree dare to grow as tall as this tree, no matter how much water it has. Every tree must die, just as humans die and go down to the world of the dead.
15. On the day this tree dies and goes to the world below, I, the Lord God, will command rivers and streams to mourn its death. Every underground spring of water and every river will stop flowing. The mountains in Lebanon will be covered with darkness as a sign of their sorrow, and all the trees in the forest will wither.
16. This tree will crash to the ground, and I will send it to the world below. Then the nations of the earth will tremble.The trees from Eden and the choice trees from Lebanon are now in the world of the dead, and they will be comforted when this tree falls.
17. Those people who found protection in its shade will also be sent to the world below, where they will join the dead.
18. King of Egypt, all these things will happen to you and your people! You were like this tree at one time—taller and stronger than anyone on earth. But now you will be chopped down, just as every tree in the garden of Eden must die. You will be sent down to the world of the dead, where you will join the godless and the other victims of violent death. I, the Lord God, have spoken.