Ezekiel 31:15

Ezekiel 31:15 says, 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 stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.  Still using the analogy of a great cedar to refer to Assyria, God said when it fell, He caused a great mourning for it.  Those nations that had been in alliance with or under the power of Assyria would mourn her passing, since it meant they could likewise fall.    

Verse sixteen adds,  I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.  God said that He caused the nations to shake at the fall of Assyria as they would later at the fall of Egypt.  When we see powerful people who deny God fall, it should cause us to quake in fear if we have not accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord.   

Verse seventeen continues, They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.  God said that all those who had relied on Assyria went down into the pit with him.  All who put their faith in the powers of the world instead of putting their faith in God will one day go down into the pits of hell together.   

Verse eighteen concludes, To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. God asked who the Pharaoh and the people of Egypt thought they were that made them incapable of falling.  God said like the people of Assyria before them that they would go down into the pit.  No matter how powerful we may believe ourselves to be, if we have not repented of our sins and put our faith in Jesus Christ, we will one day go down into the pits of hell, just like all before us who have refused to accept God’s gift of salvation have.