Ezekiel 31
1And
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,
2Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh
king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3Behold, 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.
4The
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.
5Therefore
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.
6All
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.
7Thus
was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
8The 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.
9I 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.
10Therefore 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;
11I 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.
12And 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.
13Upon
his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
14To 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.
15Thus 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.
16I 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.
17They 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.
18To 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.
