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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Gill's Exposition
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,.... Cut off the boughs and branches of this cedar, and cut him down to the ground; that is, utterly destroyed him, his empire and…
Assyria’s fall. Eze 31:11 More accurately: Therefore I will deliver him, etc ... he shall surely deal with him. I have driven him out, etc. Eze 31:14 Their trees - Rather, as in the margin, “standing…
We have seen the king of Egypt resembling the king of Assyria in pomp, and power, and prosperity, how like he was to him in his greatness; now here we see,
I. How he does likewise resemble him in his…
Cambridge Bible
The tenses in Eze 31:12-13 are perfects of threatening: the fut. would be plainer in Eze 31:31 as A.V. Eze 31:31. On "terrible" cf. Eze 28:7.
have left him cast him down, ch. Eze 32:4; Amo 5:2. His…
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