To the end — All this is designed to be a warning to mortals. All the trees — The emperors, kings, or flourishing states. By the waters — Planted most commodiously, and furnished most abundantly with power and wealth. The children of men — As common men, of no quality or distinction.
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Ezekiel 31:14
14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their treesa stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.