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so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, norset their topamong the clouds, nor their well-wateredmighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earthbeneath, among the sons of men, with those who godown to the pit."
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'Thussays the LordGOD, "On the day when it wentdown to Sheol I causedlamentations; I closed the deepover it and heldback its rivers. And its manywaters were stopped up, and I made Lebanonmourn for it, and all the trees of the fieldwiltedaway on account of it.
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"I made the nationsquake at the sound of its fall when I made it godown to Sheol with those who godown to the pit; and all the well-wateredtrees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earthbeneath.
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"To which among the trees of Eden are you thusequal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be broughtdown with the trees of Eden to the earthbeneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!"' declares the LordGOD."