Gone down. — Because the cedar is represented as growing upon the height of Lebanon. Yet “the people of the earth” is literal.
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Ezekiel 31:12
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.