Ezekiel 31:13Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the field were among his branches.
Douay-Rheims

עַל־מַפַּלְתּ֥וֹ יִשְׁכְּנ֖וּ כָּל־ע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם וְאֶל־פֹּארֹתָ֣יו הָי֔וּ כֹּ֖ל חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

If a person feels uplifted and directs their thoughts to the heavens, they will find joy in recognizing their own fragility and the unveiling of evil. Indeed, those who once behaved like beasts will hasten to join him, and with their own hands, they will dismantle the false temples of worship, for God has deemed them as branches.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Ezek 32:4And I will throw thee out on the land, I will cast thee away into the open field and I will cause all the fowls of the air to dwell upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with thee.
Ezek 29:5And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air.
Isa 18:6And they shall be left together to the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall be upon them all the summer, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
Rev 19:17And I saw an angel standing in the sun: and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that did fly through the midst of heaven: Come, gather yourselves together to the great supper of God:
Rev 19:18That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of tribunes and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them that sit on them: and the flesh of all freemen and bondmen and of little and of great.