Ezekiel 31:11

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Let me then deliver him into the hand of the chief of the nations, He shall effectually deal with him! According to his lawlessness, have I driven him out:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I determined to hand it over to a ruler of nations; he would surely deal with it. I banished it because of its wickedness.

Hebrew Names Version
I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.

New American Standard Bible
I will hand it over to a ruler of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. In accordance with its wickedness I have driven it out.

New Century Version
So I handed it over to a mighty ruler of the nations for him to punish it. Because it was evil, I got rid of it.

Amplified Bible
I will hand it over to a mighty one and a mighty one of the nations; he will most certainly deal with it. I have driven it away in accordance with its wickedness.

World English Bible
I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue therefore deliuered him into the handes of the mightiest among the heathen: he shall handle him, for I haue cast him away for his wickednesse.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
therefore I will give it into the hand of a despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have driven it away.

Legacy Standard Bible
therefore I will give it into the hand of a dominant one of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have driven it away.

Berean Standard Bible
I handed it over to the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.

Contemporary English Version
So I, the Lord God, will reject the tree and hand it over to a foreign ruler, who will punish it for its wickedness.

Complete Jewish Bible
I am handing him over to the mightiest of the nations, who will certainly deal with him as his wickedness deserves; I reject him.

Darby Translation
I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

Easy-to-Read Version
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.

George Lamsa Translation
I have therefore delivered it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it according to its sin; and he shall destroy it.

Good News Translation
so I have rejected it and will let a foreign ruler have it. He will give that tree what it deserves for its wickedness.

Lexham English Bible
then I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he dealt thoroughly with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out.

Literal Translation
so I have given him into the mighty hand of the nations. Dealing He shall deal with him; I have expelled him for his evil.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil delyuer him in to ye hondes of ye mightiest amoge ye Heithe, which shall rote him out. Acordige to his wickednes will I cast him awaye,

American Standard Version
I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

Bible in Basic English
I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I do even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I do drive him out according to his wickedness.

King James Version (1611)
I haue therefore deliuered him into the hand of the mightie one of the heathen: hee shall surely deale with him, I haue driuen him out for his wickednesse.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue therfore deliuered hym into the handes of the mightiest among the heathen: he shall handle hym, [for] in his wickednesse haue I cast hym away.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.

English Revised Version
I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
now Y haue youe hym in to the hondis of the strongeste man of hethene men. And he doynge schal do to that Assur; aftir the vnfeithfulnesse of hym Y castide hym out.

Update Bible Version
I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New English Translation
I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly, as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out.

New King James Version
therefore I will deliver it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations, and he shall surely deal with it; I have driven it out for its wickedness.

New Living Translation
I will hand it over to a mighty nation that will destroy it as its wickedness deserves. I have already discarded it.

New Life Bible
I will give it over to a powerful ruler of the nations, and he will punish it. Because of its sin, I will drive it out.

New Revised Standard
I gave it into the hand of the prince of the nations; he has dealt with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his wickedness.

Revised Standard Version
I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.

Young's Literal Translation
I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He dealeth sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Therefore Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Because thou hast become lofty in stature, And he hath stretched his top among the clouds, And his heart is exalted in his loftiness. ¹¹ Let me then deliver him into the hand of the chief of the nations, He shall effectually deal with him! According to his lawlessness, have I driven him out: ¹² Therefore have foreigners the terrible of the nations cut him down. And abandoned him, - Upon the mountains and in all valleys, have fallen his waving branches And broken have been his boughs in all the river-beds of the land, And all the peoples of the earth have come down out of his shade. And abandoned him: ¹³ 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: - ¹⁴ To the end that none of the trees of the waters - May exalt themselves in their stature or stretch their top among the clouds, Nor their mighty ones take their stand in their height- any that drink of the waters, - Because they all, are delivered to death Unto the earth below. In the midst of the sons of Adam. Amongst them who descend into the pit. ¹⁵ Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, In the day when he descended into hades, I caused a mourning. I covered over him the roaring deep, And restrained the currents thereof And stayed were the mighty waters, So caused I gloom over him unto Lebanon, And all the trees of the field for him were covered with a shroud. ¹⁶ At the sound of his fall, I made nations tremble, When I caused him to descend into hades, with them who descend into the pit, - Then were grieved in the earth below-All the trees of Eden, The choicest and best of Lebanon All who had drunk the waters. ¹⁷ Even they, with him descended into hades. Among them who were thrust through with the sword,- Even his seed who dwelt in his shade in the midst of the nations. ¹⁸ Unto whom couldst thou be likened thus, in glory and in greatness, among the trees of Eden? Yet shalt thou be caused to descend with the trees of Eden into the earth below In the midst of the uncircumcised, shalt thou lie down With them who were thrust through by the sword, the same, is Pharaoh and all his multitude, Declareth My Lord Yahweh.

Bible Verse Review
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delivered: Ezekiel 11:9, Ezekiel 21:31, Ezekiel 23:28, Judges 16:23, 1 Timothy 1:20

the mighty: Nebuchadnezzar, the subverter of the Assyrian empire. Ezekiel 32:11, Ezekiel 32:12, Jeremiah 25:9, Daniel 5:18, Daniel 5:19

he shall surely deal with him: Heb. in doing he shall do unto him, Judges 1:7, Matthew 7:1, Matthew 7:2, James 2:13

I have driven: Leviticus 18:24-28, Leviticus 20:22, Leviticus 20:23, Deuteronomy 18:12, Lamentations 1:21, Nahum 3:18

Cross-References

Genesis 18:1
And Yahweh appeared unto him among the oaks of Mamre, - as, he, was sitting at the opening of the tent in the heat of the day.

Genesis 18:17
Now, Yahweh, had said, - Am I going to hide from Abraham what I do,

Genesis 22:1
And it cared to pass after these things, that God, did prove Abraham, - and he said unto him, Abraham! And he said Behold me!

Genesis 31:5
and said to them, Beholding, am I the face of your father, that it is not towards me as aforetime, - nevertheless, the God of my father, hath been with me;

Genesis 31:7
But, your father, hath deceived me, and hath changed my wages ton times, - yet God hath not suffered him to deal harmfully with me.

Genesis 31:13
I, am the GOD of Beth-el, where thou didst anoint a pillar, where thou didst vow to me a vow, - Now, rise, go forth out of this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

Genesis 31:15
Are we not accounted, aliens, to him seeing that having sold us, he hath then gone on devouring, our silver?

Genesis 31:16
Surely all the riches which God hath stripped off from our father, unto us, it belongeth, and unto our sons, - Now, therefore, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

Exodus 3:4
And Yahweh saw, that he turned aside to see, - so God called unto him out of the midst of the thorn-bush, and said - Moses! Moses! And he said - Behold me!

1 Samuel 3:4
that Yahweh called unto Samuel, and he said - Behold me!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the Heathen,.... Or, into the hand of the mightiest of the nations o; the mightiest prince among them. Some understand this of Arbaces the Mede, by whom Sardanapalus had been defeated long before this time: others of Merodachbaladan king Babylon, by whom Esarhaddon the Assyrian monarch was vanquished; or rather Nebuchadnezzar, who was called Nabopolassar; who, in the first year p of his reign, in conjunction with Cyaxares king of Media, took Nineveh, the metropolis of the Assyrian monarchy; and this was by the appointment of God, and under the direction of his providence, and through the success he gave to the arms of these princes, according to his own decrees and prophecies. Some render it, "into the hand of the god of the nations" q; yet meaning either Cyaxares or Nebuchadnezzar; so called because of their great power and might, and which they had from the Lord:

he shall surely deal with him; or, "in doing he shall do to him" r; he shall do with him as he pleases he shall easily manage him, though so powerful; and deal with him according to his deserts; or, as the Targum, he shall take vengeance on him, as he did:

I have driven him out for his wickedness; out of his court and palace; out of his royal city Nineveh; out of his kingdom and dominions; and he shall reside and reign no more there; and all this for his wickedness, pride, and oppression, and other sins: when God strips men of their honour, riches, power, and dominion, it is because of their abuse of them; for some sin, or sins, or wickedness they have been guilty of, both against him and men; and therefore it is but just and righteous in him to dethrone such princes, and drive them from their seats.

o ביד אל גויים "in manum fortissimi gentium", Pagninus, Junius Tremellius, Polanus "potentissimi", Piscator. p Seder Olam Rabba, p. 69. q "In manum dei gentium", Montanus, Starckius; "deo gentium", Castalio. r עשו יעשה לו "faciendo faciet ei", Pagninus, Montanus; "faciendo faciebat ipsi", Starckius.

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 31:11. The mighty one of the heathen — Nebuchadnezzar. It is worthy of notice, that Nebuchadnezzar, in the first year of his reign, rendered himself master of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire. See Sedar Olam. This happened about twenty years before Ezekiel delivered this prophecy; on this account, Ashshur, Ezekiel 31:3, may relate to the Assyrians, to whom it is possible the prophet here compares the Egyptians. But see on Ezekiel 31:3.