Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 31:10-18
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...
covered the deep--as mourners cover their heads in token of mourning, "I made the deep that watered the cedar" to wrap itself in mourning for him. The waters of the deep are the tributary peoples of Assyria (Rev 17:15). fainted--literally, were "faintness" (itself); more forcible than the verb.