Ezekiel 31:1 - Prayer Tents

Downfall of Egypt and Assyria

31In the eleventh year, in the third [month], on the first [day] of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:H259H6240H8141H7992H259H2320H1697H3068H559

2"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: Who are you like in your greatness?H1121H120H559H6547H4428H4714H1995H1819H1433

3Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and shady foliage, and of lofty height. Its top was among the clouds.H804H730H3844H3303H6057H6751H2793H1362H6967H6788H5688

4The waters caused it to grow; the underground springs made it tall, directing their rivers all around the place where the tree was planted and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.H4325H1431H8415H7311H5104H1980H5439H4302H7971H8585H6086H7704

5Therefore the cedar became greater in height than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread [them] out because of the plentiful water.H6967H1361H6086H7704H5634H7235H6288H748H7227H4325H7971

6All the birds of the sky nested in its branches, and all the animals of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.H5775H8064H7077H5589H6288H2416H7704H3205H6738H3427H7227H1471

7It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant water.H3302H1433H753H1808H8328H7227H4325

8The cedars in God's garden could not rival it; the pine trees couldn't compare with its branches, nor could the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with it in beauty.H730H1588H430H6004H1265H1819H5589H6196H6288H6086H1588H430H1819H3308

9I made it beautiful with its many limbs, and all the trees of Eden, which were in God's garden, envied it.H6213H3303H7230H1808H6086H5731H1588H430H7065

10"Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,H559H136H3069H1361H6967H5414H6788H5688H3824H7311H1363

11I determined to hand it over to a ruler of nations; he would surely deal with it. I banished it because of its wickedness.H5414H3027H410H1471H6213H6213H1644H7562

12Foreigners, ruthless men from the nations, cut it down and left it lying. Its limbs fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth's ravines. All the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.H2114H6184H1471H3772H5203H2022H1516H1808H5307H6288H7665H650H776H5971H776H3381H6738H5203

13All the birds of the sky nested on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field were among its boughs.H4658H5775H8064H7931H2416H7704H6288

14[This happened] so that no trees [planted] beside water would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and so that no [other] well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the underworld, among the people who descend to the Pit.H6086H4325H1361H6967H5414H6788H5688H352H5975H1363H8354H4325H5414H4194H8482H776H8432H1121H120H3381H953

15"This is what the Lord God says: I caused grieving on the day the cedar went down to Sheol. I closed off the underground deep because of it: I held back the rivers of the deep, and [its] abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn on account of it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.H559H136H3069H3117H3381H7585H56H3680H8415H4513H5104H7227H4325H3607H3844H6937H6086H7704H5969

16I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol [to be] with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, all the well-watered trees, the choice and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the underworld.H1471H7493H6963H4658H3381H7585H3381H953H6086H5731H4005H2896H3844H8354H4325H5162H8482H776

17They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its alliesthey had lived in its shade among the nations.H3381H7585H2491H2719H2220H3427H6738H8432H1471

18"Who then are you like in glory and greatness among Eden's trees? You also will be brought down to the underworld [to be] with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his hordes"— the declaration of the Lord God.H1819H3519H1433H6086H5731H3381H6086H5731H8482H776H7901H8432H6189H2491H2719H6547H1995H5002H136H3069