Ezekiel - 31:13



13 On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

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Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;
All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the field were among his branches.
Upon his fallen trunk do all the fowl of the heavens dwell, and all the beasts of the field are upon his branches:
Upon his ruin all the fowls of the heaven shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field,
Upon his carcass all the fowls of the heaven do dwell, and upon his branches are all the beasts of the field;
All the birds of the air lived upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the countryside were among his branches.

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Historical Commentaries

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Upon his ruin shall all the fowls - The fall of Egypt is likened to the fall of a great tree; and as the fowls and beasts sheltered under its branches before, Ezekiel 31:6, so they now feed upon its ruins.

Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain,.... Or, "on his fall" (s); the fall of this tree: and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches as when a tree is cut down, and its lopped off branches and boughs lie here and there, either the birds and beasts that before dwelt in it or under it, though for a while frightened away, return unto it; or others come: the birds come and sit upon the boughs, and pick up what they can find on them; and the beasts browse upon the branches: this may signify that even those people who before put themselves under the protection of this monarch, or sought alliance with him, now preyed upon his dominions; or the Medes and Babylonians, the conquerors, seized on the provinces of the empire, and plundered them of their riches, The Targum understands it literally of the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, feeding upon the carcasses of the slain; which is no bad sense of the passage; thus,
"upon the fall of his slain all the fowls of heaven have dwelt, and upon the carcasses of his army all the beasts of the field have rested.''
(s) "super prolapse ejus", Cocceius; "super cadivum truncum ejus", Junius & Tremellius.

Birds and beasts shall insult over his fallen trunk.

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