41 lines
1.4 KiB
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41 lines
1.4 KiB
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Yahweh's parable about the cedar continues.
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## All the birds of the heavens ##
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"All the birds that fly in the sky"
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## rested on its trunk ##
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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"
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## trunk ##
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The trunk is a very thick part of the tree that comes out of the ground and holds up the rest of the tree.
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## the beasts of the field sat on its branches ##
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"the wild animals lived in the branches of the cedar"
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## watered trees ##
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"trees that get a lot of water"
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## would not raise their tree tops above the foliage ##
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Possible meanings are 1) "would not grow taller than the branches of other trees" or 2) "would not put their tops in the clouds."
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## for no other tree that drank up water would ever again grow that tall ##
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"and no other trees that get a lot of water will ever grow that tall again"
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## For they were all handed over to death ##
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"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]])
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## down to the lowest part of the earth ##
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"and I made it so that they all will go deep under the ground." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-ellipsis]])
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## in the midst of the people of mankind who go down the pit ##
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"to be with those people who have died and gone down to the grave" |