en_tn/ezk/31/13.md

Yahweh's parable about the cedar continues.

## All the birds of the heavens ##

"All the birds that fly in the sky"

## rested on its trunk ##

This can be translated as "lived on the remains of the cedar" or "lived on the dead wood from the cedar that was laying on the ground"

## trunk ##

The trunk is a very thick part of the tree that comes out of the ground and holds up the rest of the tree.

## the beasts of the field sat on its branches ##

"the wild animals lived in the branches of the cedar"

## watered trees ##

"trees that get a lot of water"

## would not raise their tree tops above the foliage ##

Possible meanings are 1) "would not grow taller than the branches of other trees" or 2) "would not put their tops in the clouds."

## for no other tree that drank up water would ever again grow that tall ##

"and no other trees that get a lot of water will ever grow that tall again"

## For they were all handed over to death ##

"For I gave them all over to death" or "For I made it so that they all will die." Yahweh is speaking. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## down to the lowest part of the earth ##

"and I made it so that they all will go deep under the ground."  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])

## in the midst of the people of mankind who go down the pit ##

"to be with those people who have died and gone down to the grave"