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Ezekiel

ESV

Chapter 31

¹In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: ²“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness? ³Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds. ⁴The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around its root and sending out its channels to all the trees of the field. ⁵So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from the abundance of water in its shoots. ⁶All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations. ⁷It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by abundant waters. ⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs, nor the plane trees compare with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was equal to it in beauty. ⁹I made it beautiful in the abundance of its branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it. ¹⁰“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, ¹¹I will deliver 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. ¹²Foreigners, 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 lie broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. ¹³On its ruin will dwell all the birds of the heavens, and all the beasts of the field will be among its branches, ¹⁴so that no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves for their height or set their tops among the clouds, and 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. ¹⁵“Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day when it went down to Sheol I spread mourning over it; I covered the deep for it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. ¹⁶I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below. ¹⁷They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations. ¹⁸Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; you shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,” declares the Lord GOD.