Ezekiel 31

31In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:H259H6240H8141H7992H259H2320H1697H3068H5592"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: "'Who can be compared with you in majesty?H1121H120H559H6547H4428H4714H1995H1819H14333Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest; it towered on high, its top above the thick foliage.H804H730H3844H3303H6057H6751H2793H1362H6967H6788H56884The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.H4325H1431H8415H7311H5104H1980H5439H4302H7971H8585H6086H77045So it towered higher than all the trees of the field; its boughs increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of abundant waters.H6967H1361H6086H7704H5634H7235H6288H748H7227H4325H79716All the birds of the air nested in its boughs, all the beasts of the field gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.H5775H8064H7077H5589H6288H2416H7704H3205H6738H3427H7227H14717It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.H3302H1433H753H1808H8328H7227H43258The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor could the pine trees equal its boughs, nor could the plane trees compare with its branches--no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.H730H1588H430H6004H1265H1819H5589H6196H6288H6086H1588H430H1819H33089I made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God.H6213H3303H7230H1808H6086H5731H1588H430H706510"'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because it towered on high, lifting its top above the thick foliage, and because it was proud of its height,H559H136H3069H1361H6967H5414H6788H5688H3824H7311H136311I handed it over to the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside,H5414H3027H410H1471H6213H6213H1644H756212and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.H2114H6184H1471H3772H5203H2022H1516H1808H5307H6288H7665H650H776H5971H776H3381H6738H520313All the birds of the air settled on the fallen tree, and all the beasts of the field were among its branches.H4658H5775H8064H7931H2416H7704H628814Therefore no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well-watered are ever to reach such a height; they are all destined for death, for the earth below, among mortal men, with those who go down to the pit.H6086H4325H1361H6967H5414H6788H5688H352H5975H1363H8354H4325H5414H4194H8482H776H8432H1121H120H3381H95315"'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: On the day it was brought down to the grave I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away.H559H136H3069H3117H3381H7585H56H3680H8415H4513H5104H7227H4325H3607H3844H6937H6086H7704H596916I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the grave with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the trees that were well-watered, were consoled in the earth below.H1471H7493H6963H4658H3381H7585H3381H953H6086H5731H4005H2896H3844H8354H4325H5162H8482H77617Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, had also gone down to the grave with it, joining those killed by the sword.H3381H7585H2491H2719H2220H3427H6738H8432H147118"'Which of the trees of Eden can be compared with you in splendor and majesty? Yet you, too, will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword. "'This is Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign LORD.'"H1819H3519H1433H6086H5731H3381H6086H5731H8482H776H7901H8432H6189H2491H2719H6547H1995H5002H136H3069