Ezekiel 31:13

Easy-to-Read Version

Now birds live in that fallen tree. Wild animals walk over its fallen branches.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All the birds of the sky nested on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field were among its boughs.

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

King James Version
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

English Standard Version
On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field.

New American Standard Bible
"All the birds of the sky will nest on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field will rest on its fallen branches,

New Century Version
The birds of the sky live on the fallen tree. The wild animals live among the tree's fallen branches.

Amplified Bible
"All the birds of the sky will nest in its ruins, and all the animals of the field will rest on its fallen branches

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Vpon his ruine shall all the foules of the heauen remaine, and all the beastes of the fielde shall be vpon his branches,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"On its ruin all the birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches

Legacy Standard Bible
On its downfall all the birds of the sky will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches

Berean Standard Bible
All the birds of the air nested on its fallen trunk, and all the beasts of the field were among its boughs.

Contemporary English Version
Birds will then nest on the stump of the fallen tree, and wild animals will trample its branches.

Complete Jewish Bible
All the birds will settle on his fallen trunk, and all the wild animals will be on his branches.

Darby Translation
Upon his fallen [trunk] do all the fowl of the heavens dwell, and all the beasts of the field are upon his branches:

George Lamsa Translation
And when it falls, all the fowls of the air shall alight upon it and all the beasts of the field shall be under its branches,

Good News Translation
The birds will come and perch on the fallen tree, and the wild animals will walk over its branches.

Lexham English Bible
On its fallen trunk all the birds of the heaven now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches.

Literal Translation
All the birds of the heavens shall dwell on his ruin, and on his branches shall be all the beasts of the field,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When he is falle, all ye foules of ye ayre shal syt vpon him, and all wilde beestes of the felde shal go aboute amonge his brauches:

American Standard Version
Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;

Bible in Basic English
All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Upon his carcass all the fowls of the heaven do dwell, and upon his branches are all the beasts of the field;

King James Version (1611)
Upon his ruine shal all the foules of the heauen remaine, & all the beasts of the field shalbe vpon his branches,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Upon his ruine shall all the foules of the ayre remayne, and all the beastes of the fielde shalbe vpon his braunches.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs:

English Revised Version
Upon his ruin all the fowls of the heaven shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle volatils of the eir dwelliden in the fallyng of hym, and alle beestis of the cuntrei weren in the braunchis of hym.

Update Bible Version
On his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be on his branches;

Webster's Bible Translation
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

New English Translation
On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.

New King James Version
"On its ruin will remain all the birds of the heavens, And all the beasts of the field will come to its branches--

New Living Translation
"The birds roost on its fallen trunk, and the wild animals lie among its branches.

New Life Bible
All the birds of the air will live on its broken pieces. And all the animals of the field will be on its fallen branches.

New Revised Standard
On its fallen trunk settle all the birds of the air, and among its boughs lodge all the wild animals.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Upon his trunk, shall settle down all the birds of the heavens,- And among his boughs, are to be found all the wild beasts of the field: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the field were among his branches.

Revised Standard Version
Upon its ruin will dwell all the birds of the air, and upon its branches will be all the beasts of the field.

Young's Literal Translation
On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ So this is what the Lord God says: "That tree grew tall. Its top reached up to the clouds. It grew so big that it became proud! ¹¹ So I let a powerful king have that tree. That ruler punished the tree for the bad things it did. I took that tree out of my garden. ¹² Strangers—the most terrible people in the world—cut it down and scattered its branches on the mountains and in the valleys. Its broken limbs drifted down the rivers flowing through that land. There was no more shadow under that tree, so all the people left. ¹³ Now birds live in that fallen tree. Wild animals walk over its fallen branches. ¹⁴ "Now, none of the trees by that water will be proud. They will not try to reach the clouds. None of the strong trees that drink that water will brag about being tall, because all of them must die. They will all go down into the world below, to Sheol, the place of death. They will join the other people who died and went down into that deep hole." ¹⁵ This is what the Lord God says: "I made the people cry on the day that tree went down to Sheol. I covered him with the deep ocean. I stopped its rivers and all the water stopped flowing. I made Lebanon mourn for it. All the trees of the field became sick with sadness for that big tree. ¹⁶ I made the tree fall—and the nations shook with fear at the sound of the falling tree. I sent the tree down to the place of death to join the other people who had gone down into that deep hole. In the past, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, drank that water. The trees were comforted in the world below. ¹⁷ Yes, those trees also went down with the big tree to the place of death. They joined the people who were killed in battle. That big tree made the other trees strong. Those trees had lived under the big tree's shadow among the nations. ¹⁸ "Egypt, there were many big and powerful trees in Eden. Which of those trees should I compare you to? They all went down into the world below! And you, too, will join those foreigners in that place of death. You will lie there among the people killed in battle. "Yes, that will happen to Pharaoh and to the crowds of people with him!" This is what the Lord God said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 29:5, Ezekiel 32:4, Isaiah 18:6, Revelation 19:17, Revelation 19:18

Reciprocal: Daniel 4:14 - let

Cross-References

Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to Jacob, "Go back to your own land where your ancestors lived. I will be with you."

Genesis 31:12
"The angel said, ‘Look, only the striped and spotted goats are mating. I am causing this to happen. I have seen all the wrong things Laban has been doing to you. I am doing this so that you can have all the new baby goats.

Genesis 31:22
Three days later Laban learned that Jacob had run away.

Genesis 32:9
Then Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham! God of my father Isaac! Lord , you told me to come back to my country and to my family. You said that you would do good to me.

Genesis 35:7
Jacob built an altar there. He named the place "El Bethel." Jacob chose this name because that is the place where God first appeared to him when he was running from his brother.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 על מפלתו "super prolapse ejus", Cocceius; "super cadivum truncum ejus", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Ezekiel 31:14

Their trees - Rather, as in the margin, “standing unto themselves” meaning “standing in their own strength.” The clause will then run 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 in. The Egyptians owed everything to the waters of the Nile. The substance is, that Assyria’s fall was decreed in order that the mighty ones of the earth might learn not to exalt themselves in pride or to rely on themselves, seeing that they must share the common lot of mortality.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 31:13. 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.