31In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:H259H6240H8141H7992H259H2320H1697H3068H5592Mortal, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: Whom are you like in your greatness?H1121H120H559H6547H4428H4714H1995H1819H14333Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.H804H730H3844H3303H6057H6751H2793H1362H6967H6788H56884The waters nourished it, the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place it was planted, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field.H4325H1431H8415H7311H5104H1980H5439H4302H7971H8585H6086H77045So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots.H6967H1361H6086H7704H5634H7235H6288H748H7227H4325H79716All the birds of the air made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth to their young; and in its shade all great nations lived.H5775H8064H7077H5589H6288H2416H7704H3205H6738H3427H7227H14717It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant water.H3302H1433H753H1808H8328H7227H43258The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.H730H1588H430H6004H1265H1819H5589H6196H6288H6086H1588H430H1819H33089I made it beautiful with its mass of branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God.H6213H3303H7230H1808H6086H5731H1588H430H706510Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,H559H136H3069H1361H6967H5414H6788H5688H3824H7311H136311I gave it into the hand of the prince of the nations; he has dealt with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.H5414H3027H410H1471H6213H6213H1644H756212Foreigners from the most terrible of the nations have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth went away from its shade and left it.H2114H6184H1471H3772H5203H2022H1516H1808H5307H6288H7665H650H776H5971H776H3381H6738H520313On its fallen trunk settle all the birds of the air, and among its boughs lodge all the wild animals.H4658H5775H8064H7931H2416H7704H628814All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For all of them are handed over to death, to the world below; along with all mortals, with those who go down to the Pit.H6086H4325H1361H6967H5414H6788H5688H352H5975H1363H8354H4325H5414H4194H8482H776H8432H1121H120H3381H95315Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day it went down to Sheol I closed the deep over it and covered it; I restrained its rivers, and its mighty waters were checked. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.H559H136H3069H3117H3381H7585H56H3680H8415H4513H5104H7227H4325H3607H3844H6937H6086H7704H596916I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that were well watered, were consoled in the world below.H1471H7493H6963H4658H3381H7585H3381H953H6086H5731H4005H2896H3844H8354H4325H5162H8482H77617They also went down to Sheol with it, to those killed by the sword, along with its allies, those who lived in its shade among the nations.H3381H7585H2491H2719H2220H3427H6738H8432H147118Which among the trees of Eden was like you in glory and in greatness? Now you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; you shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are killed by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his horde, says the Lord GOD.H1819H3519H1433H6086H5731H3381H6086H5731H8482H776H7901H8432H6189H2491H2719H6547H1995H5002H136H3069
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