The Book of 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 Jehovah came unto me, saying, 31:2Son of man, say
unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy
greatness? 31:3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and
with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick
boughs. 31:4The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran
round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the
field. 31:5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its
boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters,
when it shot them forth. 31:6All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its
boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their
young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations. 31:7Thus was it fair in its
greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters. 31:8The
cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its
boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the
garden of God like unto it in its beauty. 31:9I made it fair by the multitude of its
branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
31:10Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted in stature, and
he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
31:11I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall
surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness. 31:12And 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 watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are
gone down from his shadow, and have left him. 31:13Upon his ruin all the birds of
the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;
31:14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their
stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones
stand up on their height, even 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. 31:15Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he
went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I
restrained the rivers 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. 31:16I made
the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with
them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of
Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
31:17They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the
sword; yea, they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of
the nations. 31:18To 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 are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the
Lord Jehovah.