Ezekiel
Chapter Thirty-One
1 And it came to pass
in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that
the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art
thou like in thy greatness?
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a
forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran
round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees
of the field.
5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its
boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters,
when it shot them forth.
6 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its
branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young; and under
its shadow dwelt all great nations.
7 Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its
root was by many waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not
like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree
in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.
9 I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of
Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
10 Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted in stature,
and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in
his height;
11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he
shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left
him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and
his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples
of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts
of the field shall be upon his branches;
14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their
stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty
ones stand up on their height, even 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.
15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused
a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers 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.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down
to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the
choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether
parts of the earth.
17 They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword;
yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the
nations.
18 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
are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord
Jehovah.
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