Albert Barnes Commentary Ezekiel 31:10-14

"Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: 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; I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness. 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 watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches; to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on 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." — Ezekiel 31:10-14 (ASV)

Assyria’s fall (Ezekiel 31:11).

More accurately: Therefore I will deliver him, etc. ... he shall surely deal with him. I have driven him out, etc.

In Ezekiel 31:14, Their trees - Rather, as in the margin, standing unto themselves, meaning standing in their own strength. The clause will then read thus: Neither all that drink water stand up in their own strength. All that drink water means mighty princes to whom wealth and prosperity flow. The Egyptians owed everything to the waters of the Nile. The substance is that Assyria’s fall was decreed so that the mighty ones of the earth might learn not to exalt themselves in pride or to rely on themselves, since they must share the common lot of mortality.