Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it.
Pride climbs with every coin and crown, one carnal heart teaches another the same fatal lesson. Pharaoh grew great and his heart rose with him; so did Assyria's king, who set God Himself at defiance. Rare is the humble spirit in high places, and rarer still the escape from the fall that waits on such arrogance.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 31:10-18
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,.... Cut off the boughs and branches of this cedar, and cut him down to the ground; that is, utterly destroyed him, his empire and monarchy: these "strangers" were the Medes, who lived in a country distant from Assyria; and "the terrible of the nations", the cruel and merciless Chaldeans, the soldiers of the king...
from his shadow--under which they had formerly dwelt as their covert (Eze 31:6).