12. A foreign army—the terror of the nations—has cut it down and left it fallen on the ground. Its branches are scattered across the mountains and valleys and ravines of the land. All those who lived in its shadow have gone away and left it lying there.
13. “The birds roost on its fallen trunk,and the wild animals lie among its branches.
14. Let the tree of no other nationproudly exult in its own prosperity,though it be higher than the cloudsand it be watered from the depths.For all are doomed to die,to go down to the depths of the earth.They will land in the pitalong with everyone else on earth.