“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 out 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 chesnut 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.”
(Ezekiel 31:1-18 AV)
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