In the aeleventh year
, in the third
month, on the first
of the month
, the word
of the LORD
came
to me saying
,
"Son of man
, say
to Pharaoh
king
of Egypt
and to his ahordes
, `Whom
are you like
in your greatness
?
`Behold, Assyria
was a acedar
in Lebanon
With beautiful
branches
and forest
shade
, And 1 bvery
high
, And its top
was among
the 2clouds
.
`The awaters made it grow
, the 1deep
made
it high
. With its rivers
it continually 2extended
all
around
its planting
place
, And sent
out its channels
to all
the trees
of the field
.
`Therefore aits height
was loftier
than
all
the trees
of the field
And its boughs
became
many
and its branches
long
Because
of bmany
waters
1as it spread
them out.
`All the abirds
of the heavens
nested
in its boughs
, And under
its branches
all
the beasts
of the field
gave
birth
, And all
great
nations
lived
under its shade
.
`So it was beautiful in its greatness
, in the length
of its branches
; For its 1roots
extended
to many
waters
.
`The acedars in bGod's
garden
1could not match
it; The 2cypresses
1could not compare
with its boughs
, And the plane
trees
3could not match its branches
. No
tree
in bGod's
garden
1could compare
with it in its beauty
.
`I made it beautiful
with the multitude
of its branches
, And all
the trees
of aEden
, which
were in the agarden
of God
, were jealous
of it.
`Therefore thus
says
the Lord
1GOD
, "Because
2it is high
in stature
and has set
its top
among
the 3clouds
, and its aheart
is haughty
in its loftiness
,
therefore I will give it into the hand
of a 1 adespot
of the nations
; he will thoroughly
deal
with it. According to its wickedness
I have bdriven
it away
.
" aAlien btyrants
of the nations
have cut
it down
and left
it; on the cmountains
and in all
the valleys
its branches
have fallen
and its boughs
have been broken
in all
the ravines
of the land
. And all
the peoples
of the earth
have dgone
down
from its shade
and left
it.
"On its ruin all
the abirds
of the heavens
will dwell
, and all
the beasts
of the field
will be on its fallen branches
so that all
the trees
by the waters
may not be exalted
in their stature
, nor
set
their top
among
the 1clouds
, nor
their 2well-watered
mighty
ones stand
erect in their height
. For they have all
been given
over to death
, to the aearth
beneath
, among
the sons
of men
, with those who go
down
to the pit
."
`Thus says
the Lord
GOD
, "On the day
when it went
down
to Sheol
I acaused
lamentations
; I closed
the 1deep
over
it and held
back
its rivers
. And its many
waters
were stopped
up, and I made Lebanon
2mourn
for it, and all
the trees
of the field
wilted
away
on account
of it.
"I made the nations aquake
at the sound
of its fall
when I made it bgo
down
to Sheol
with those who go
down
to the pit
; and all
the 1well-watered
trees
of Eden
, the choicest
and best
of cLebanon
, were dcomforted
in the earth
beneath
.
"They also awent
down
with it to Sheol
to those who were bslain
by the sword
; and those who were its 1strength
lived
cunder its shade
among
the nations
.
"To which among the trees
of Eden
are you thus
1equal
in glory
and greatness
? Yet you will be brought
down
with the trees
of Eden
to the earth
beneath
; you will lie
in the midst
of the auncircumcised
, with those who were slain
by the sword
. bSo is Pharaoh
and all
his hordes
!"' declares
the Lord
GOD
."