Ezekiel 31:17-18

Contemporary English Version

¹⁷ Those people who found protection in its shade will also be sent to the world below, where they will join the dead.^[a]

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.