31AND IN the eleventh year [after King Jehoiachin was taken captive to Babylon], in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,H259H6240H8141H7992H259H2320H1697H3068H559 2Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?H1121H120H559H6547H4428H4714H1995H1819H1433 3Behold, [I will liken you to] Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with forestlike shade and of high stature, with its top among the thick boughs [even among the clouds].H804H730H3844H3303H6057H6751H2793H1362H6967H6788H5688 4The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall; its rivers ran round about its planting, sending out its streams to all the trees of the forest [the other nations].H4325H1431H8415H7311H5104H1980H5439H4302H7971H8585H6086H7704 5Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the forest; its boughs were multiplied and its branches became long, because there was much water when they were shot forth.H6967H1361H6086H7704H5634H7235H6288H748H7227H4325H7971 6All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches all the wild beasts of the field brought forth their young and under its shadow dwelt all of the great nations.H5775H8064H7077H5589H6288H2416H7704H3205H6738H3427H7227H1471 7Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by many {and} great waters.H3302H1433H753H1808H8328H7227H4325 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide {or} rival it; the cypress trees did not have boughs like it and the plane trees did not have branches like it, nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.H730H1588H430H6004H1265H1819H5589H6196H6288H6086H1588H430H1819H3308 9I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it [Assyria].H6213H3303H7230H1808H6086H5731H1588H430H7065 10Therefore thus said the Lord God: Because it is exalted in stature and has set its top among the thick boughs {and} the clouds, and its heart is proud of its height,H559H136H3069H1361H6967H5414H6788H5688H3824H7311H1363 11I will even deliver it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it. I have driven it out for its wickedness {and} lawlessness.H5414H3027H410H1471H6213H6213H1644H7562 12And strangers, the most terrible of the nations, will cut it off and leave it; upon the mountains and in all the valleys its branches will fall and its boughs will lie broken by all the watercourses of the land, and all the peoples of the earth will go down out of its shade and leave it.H2114H6184H1471H3772H5203H2022H1516H1808H5307H6288H7665H650H776H5971H776H3381H6738H5203 13Upon its ruins all the birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the wild beasts of the field will be upon [Assyria's fallen] branches.H4658H5775H8064H7931H2416H7704H6288 14All this is so that none of the trees by the waters may exalt themselves because of their height or shoot up their top among the thick boughs {and} the clouds, and that none of their mighty ones should stand upon [their own estimate of] themselves for their height, all that drink water. For they are all delivered over to death, to the lower world, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit (the grave).H6086H4325H1361H6967H5414H6788H5688H352H5975H1363H8354H4325H5414H4194H8482H776H8432H1121H120H3381H953 15Thus says the Lord God: When [Assyria] goes down to Sheol (the place of the dead), I will cause a mourning; I will cover the deep for it and I will restrain its floods, and the many waters [that contributed to its prosperity] will be stayed; and I will cause Lebanon to be in black gloom {and} to mourn for it, and all the trees of the field, dismayed, will faint because of it.H559H136H3069H3117H3381H7585H56H3680H8415H4513H5104H7227H4325H3607H3844H6937H6086H7704H5969 16I will make the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit, and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all [the trees] that drink water, will be comforted in the netherworld [at Assyria's downfall].H1471H7493H6963H4658H3381H7585H3381H953H6086H5731H4005H2896H3844H8354H4325H5162H8482H776 17They also shall go down into Sheol with it to those who were slain by the sword--yes, those who were its arm, who dwelt under its shadow in the midst of the nations.H3381H7585H2491H2719H2220H3427H6738H8432H1471 18To whom [O Egypt] among the trees of Eden are you thus like in glory and in greatness? Yet you [also] shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the netherworld. You shall lie among the uncircumcised heathen with those who are slain by the sword. This is how it shall be with Pharaoh and all the multitude of his strength, his tumult, {and} his store [of wealth and glory], says the Lord God.H1819H3519H1433H6086H5731H3381H6086H5731H8482H776H7901H8432H6189H2491H2719H6547H1995H5002H136H3069
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