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,
02 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy
greatness?
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 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.
07 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the
length of his branches: for his root was by great
waters.
08 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.
09 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.
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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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