Ezequiel 31:15

15 »”Esto dice el Señor
Soberano: cuando Asiria descendió a la tumba,
hice que los manantiales profundos se lamentaran. Detuve el curso de sus ríos y sequé su abundante agua. Vestí de negro el Líbano e hice que se marchitaran los árboles del campo.

Ezequiel 31:15 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 31:15

Thus saith the Lord God, in the day when he went down to the
grave
The Assyrian monarch; when his monarchy was destroyed, and he ceased to be king, and was stripped of all his majesty, power, and authority, and was as one dead, and laid in the grave, and buried: I caused a mourning:
that is, for him, in the waters, and among the trees, among the people and the kings of the earth, as follows: I covered the deep for him;
with mourning, with thick darkness, which set him up on high ( Ezekiel 31:4 ) : and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed;
which made him great, ( Ezekiel 31:4 ) , signifying by all this that the kingdoms of the world, comparable to the sea, of which his monarchy consisted, and all the inhabitants and people of them, comparable to floods and great waters, were affected with the fall of this great monarch, and thrown into consternation by it; not knowing what the event of things would be, stood still, and knew not what course to take; all business was stopped, especially all traffic by sea, and all trade and commerce every where; a stagnation of everything for a while: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him;
where he was a cedar, ( Ezekiel 31:3 ) , this may respect the whole empire he was head of, particularly the kingdom of Syria, on the borders of which Lebanon was; and was a part of the Assyrian empire, which must mourn and be concerned at the fall of it: and all the trees of the field fainted for him:
all the kings of the earth that were in alliance with him, or subject to him, trembled for fear that their destruction would be next; or as doubtful and concerned what would be their condition, under the yoke of another. The Targum is,

``tribulation covered the world, and the provinces were forsaken, and many people trembled, and all the kings of the people smote the shoulder because of him.''

Ezequiel 31:15 In-Context

13 »”Las aves se posan en el tronco caído,
y los animales salvajes se tienden entre sus ramas.

14 Que ningún árbol de ninguna otra nación
se envanezca por su propia grandeza,
aunque supere la altura de las nubes
y reciba agua de lo profundo.
Pues todos están condenados a morir
y a descender a las profundidades de la tierra.
Caerán a la fosa
junto con el resto del mundo.

15 »”Esto dice el Señor
Soberano: cuando Asiria descendió a la tumba,
hice que los manantiales profundos se lamentaran. Detuve el curso de sus ríos y sequé su abundante agua. Vestí de negro el Líbano e hice que se marchitaran los árboles del campo.

16 Hice que las naciones temblaran de miedo al sonido de su caída, porque la envié a la tumba junto con todos los que descienden a la fosa. Los demás árboles vanidosos del Edén, los mejores y más hermosos del Líbano, aquellos que hundían sus raíces profundamente en el agua, se consolaron al encontrar a este árbol allí con ellos en las profundidades de la tierra.

17 También sus aliados fueron destruidos y estaban muertos. Habían descendido a la tumba todas esas naciones que una vez vivieron bajo su sombra.