King James Version
Ezekiel 31:13 in the King James Version says “Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:”
Ezekiel 31:13 · KJV
I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness. he: Heb. in doing he shall do unto him
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.
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, 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 for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, 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. their trees: or, stand upon themselves for their height
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. to mourn: Heb. to be black
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above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“Upon his ruin”
H4658fall, i.e., decadence; concretely, a ruin; specifically a carcase
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“shall all the fowls”
H5775a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
“of the heaven”
H8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r
“shall be upon his branches”
H6288properly, ornamentation, i.e., (plural) foliage (including the limbs) as bright green
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all the beasts”
H2416alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin
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