31:10 所以主耶和華如此說：「因它高大，樹尖插入雲中，心驕氣傲，
31:11 我就必將他交給列國中大有威勢的人；他必定辦他。我因他的罪惡，已經驅逐他。
31:12 外邦人，就是列邦中強暴的，將它砍斷棄掉。它的枝條落在山間和一切谷中，它的枝子折斷，落在地的一切河旁。地上的眾民已經走去，離開它的蔭下。
31:13 空中的飛鳥都要宿在這敗落的樹上，田野的走獸都要臥在它的枝條下，
31:14 好使水旁的諸樹不因高大而自尊，也不將樹尖插入雲中，並且那些得水滋潤、有勢力的，也不得高大自立。因為它們在世人中，和下坑的人都被交與死亡，到陰府去了。」
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because
it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of
its height, I will give it into the hand
of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness
deserves. I have cast it out.
Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it.
On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its
boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of
the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the
heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. All this is in order that no trees by the
waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that
no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all
given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those
who go down to the pit.
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香柏樹的高大華美，卻沒有說這樣有什麼不對，但是其內心高傲，上帝就要懲罰之。上帝的懲罰就是「砍斷這棵自高的香柏樹」。讓依附於他群眾棄他而去。但是香柏樹被砍伐後，還是有不少生物依附於其殘驅之中。這也表示人的無知，只知倚靠那無法長遠的偶想或強權，而不倚靠真正有能力的上帝。
無論如何，有勢力而自高自大的國家，最終都要和世人一樣會死亡（滅亡）。所以這些強國也不能自高自大，仍然要敬畏上帝，以免遭受到滅亡之命運。強權國家如此，每一個人也是如此，要倚靠上帝！
求主幫助我們，讓我們不要自高自大，要靠耶穌基督的名來成為上帝的兒女，行在上帝要我們行的道路，我們才可以享受永生之福，得真正的安息！
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