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Ezekiel 31
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 the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak 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 shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the
thick boughs.
4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her
rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the
trees of the field.
5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the
field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of
the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under
his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under
his shadow dwelt all great nations.
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches:
for his root was by great waters.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees
were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor
any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that
all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up
thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his
heart is lifted up in his height;
11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one
of the heathen; 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 rivers of the land; and all the
people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, 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 for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs,
neither their trees stand up in their height, 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 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.
16 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.
17 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.
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 be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith
the Lord GOD.
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