 1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first of the month, the Word of the Lord came to me saying, 2 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: To whom are you like in your greatness? 3 Behold, Assyria was like a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and forest shade and of great height. His top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great. The deep set him up on high with her rivers running all around his plants and sent out her little channels to all the trees of the field. 5 So his height was lifted up above all the trees of the field and his boughs were multiplied and his branches became long because of the many waters when he sent out. 6 All the birds of the heavens nested in his boughs and under his branches all the beasts of the field bore their young and under his shadow lived all great nations. 7 So he was beautiful 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 chestnut trees were not like his branches. Nor was any tree in the garden of God like him in his beauty. 9 I have made him beautiful with his many branches so that all the trees of Eden in the garden of God envied him. 10 So the Lord God says this: Because you have lifted yourself up in height and set his top among the thick boughs and his heart is lifted up in his height, 11 I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have expelled him for his evil. 12 Strangers have cut him off. The fearful of the nations have left him. On the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have fallen. His boughs have been broken by all the rivers of the land. All the people of the earth have gone from his shadow and have left him. 13 On his ruin, all the birds of the heavens remain and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches. 14 None of all the trees by the waters will exalt thaemselves in their height nor shoot up their top among the thick boughs nor their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water. For they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down into the pit. 15 Thus says 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 held back its floods, The great waters were held back. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him and all the trees of the field fainted because of him. 16 I made the nations shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with those who go down in the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, will be comforted in the lower parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into hell with him to those who are slain with the sword, even his arm, who lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations. 18 To whom are you like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God.
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