31
1 In
the eleventh year,
in the third
month, in the first
day of the
month, the LORD’s
word came to
me, saying,
2 “Son
of man, tell
Pharaoh king of
Egypt and his
multitude:
‘Whom are you
like in your
greatness?
3 Behold,
the Assyrian was a
cedar in Lebanon
with beautiful
branches,
and with
a forest-like shade,
of high stature;
and its top
was among the thick
boughs.
4 The
waters nourished
it.
The deep made
it to grow.
Its rivers ran
all around its
plantation.
It sent out
its channels to
all the trees
of the field.
5 Therefore
its stature was
exalted above all
the trees of
the field;
and its boughs
were multiplied.
Its branches
became long by
reason of many
waters,
when it spread
them out.
6 All
the birds of
the sky made
their nests in
its boughs.
Under its
branches, all the
animals of the
field gave birth
to their young.
All great nations
lived under its
shadow.
7 Thus
it was beautiful
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 cypress trees
were not like
its branches.
The pine trees
were not like
its branches;
nor was any
tree in the
garden of God
like it in
its beauty.
9 I
made it beautiful
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 GOD: ‘Because
he is exalted
in stature, and
he has set
his top among
the thick branches,
and his heart
is lifted up
in his height,
11 I
will deliver him
into the hand
of the mighty one
of the nations.
He will surely
deal with him.
I have driven
him out for
his wickedness.
12 Foreigners,
the tyrants of
the nations, have
cut him off
and have left
him. His branches
have fallen on
the mountains and
in all the
valleys, and his
boughs are broken
by all
the watercourses of
the land. All the
peoples of
the earth have
gone down from
his shadow and
have left him.
13 All
the birds of
the sky will
dwell on his
ruin, and all
the animals of
the field will
be on his
branches,
14 to
the end that
none of all
the trees by
the waters exalt
themselves in
their stature,
and don’t set
their top among
the thick boughs.
Their mighty
ones don’t stand
up on their
height, even all
who drink water;
for they are
all delivered to
death, to the
lower parts of
the earth, among
the children of
men, with those
who go down
to the pit.’
15 “The
Lord GOD says: ‘In
the day when
he went down
to Sheol,
I caused a
mourning. I
covered the deep
for him, and
I restrained its
rivers. The great
waters were
stopped. 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 those who
descend into the
pit. All the
trees of Eden,
the choice and
best of Lebanon,
all that drink
water, were
comforted in the
lower parts of
the earth.
17 They
also went down
into Sheol with
him to those
who are slain
by the sword;
yes, those who
were his arm,
who lived under
his shadow in
the middle of
the nations.
18 “ ‘To
whom are you
thus like in
glory and in
greatness among
the trees of
Eden? Yet you
will be brought
down with the
trees of Eden
to the lower
parts of the earth.
You will lie
in the middle
of the
uncircumcised, with
those who are
slain by the
sword.
“ ‘This is
Pharaoh and all
his multitude,’
says the Lord
GOD.”