And aliens, the most terrible of the nations, have cut it down and left it; its branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs lie broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from under its shadow and left it.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Assyria’s fall (Ezekiel 31:11).

More accurately: Therefore I will deliver him, etc. ... he shall surely deal with him. I hav…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Gone down. —Because the cedar is represented as growing upon the height of Lebanon. Yet the people of the earth is litera…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off ,
&c.] Cut off the boughs and branches of this cedar, a…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

The king of Egypt resembled the king of Assyria in his greatness: here we see he also resembles him in his pride. And he shall resemble him in his …