Ezekiel 31:12

Eze 31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ver. 12. And strangers have cut him off. ] The greater wealth the greater spoil awaiteth a man; as each one desireth to lop the tree that hath thick and large boughs and branches.

And his boughs are broken, ] i.e., His vassals, homagers, and auxiliaries.

And all the people of the earth. ] Who once sheltered under his shadow. But the rule is,

“ Arbor honoretur cuius nos umbra tuetur. ”

And have left him. ] And joined themselves to the Babylonian.

“ Sic cum fortuna statque caditque fides. ” - Ovid.