Eze 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,
Eze 31:2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude;
Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Eze 31:3 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.
Eze 31:4 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.
Eze 31:5 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.
Eze 31:6 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.
Eze 31:7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for
his root was by great waters.
Eze 31:8 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.
Eze 31:9 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.
Eze 31:10 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;
Eze 31:11 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.
Eze 31:12 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.
Eze 31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the
beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
Eze 31:14 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.
Eze 31:15 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.
Eze 31:16 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.
Eze 31:17 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.
Eze 31:18 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.