Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 31:15

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; in the day when he went down to the grave, I caused a mourning ; I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were staied: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him; and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

The King of Assyria, the tall Cedar, or the Kingdom of Assyria,

Was a man in grave; buried in its own ruins.

There was much lamentation.

I put the Sea, i. e. Either neighbouring States, or the body of his people, or the trading part of the World, into mourning for him.

All publick affairs; Commerce, and Friendly intelligences, were at a great stand.

The great traffick and wealth by it, which did flow, as great waters, were staid, and living Rivers were, as void of motion, as the dead Sea, all was out of course.

The field, in which this Cedar grew, i. e. the whole Kingdom of Assyria.

Fell into a swound at the News of this great, and unparallel'd downfal of this mighty King, and Kingdom, which hath been here in sacred Hyperbole set forth to warn Egypt, and convince it, none can stand whom God will cast down. Whether there were any portentous signs in the Sea, and great Waters, and the Rivers, and among the trees, presages of this fall, and pointed at here, I enquire not.

All the lesser Kings, and Princes about him

Marginal references: Heb. be [illegible: 1 word].