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Pharaoh Warned of Assyria’s Fate
1 In the
Aeleventh year, in the third
month, on the first of the month, the word of the Loʀᴅ came to me saying,
2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his
Ahordes,
‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
3 ‘Behold, Assyria
was a
Acedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And its top was among the
2clouds.
4 ‘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.
5 ‘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.
6 ‘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.
7 ‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its
1roots extended to many waters.
8 ‘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.
9 ‘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.
10 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord
1Goᴅ, “Because
2it is high in stature and has set its top among the
3clouds, and its
Aheart is haughty in its loftiness,
11 therefore I will give it into the hand of a
1Adespot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have
Bdriven it away.
12 “
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.
13 “On its ruin all the
Abirds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its
fallen branches
14 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.”
15 ‘Thus says the Lord Goᴅ, “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.
16 “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.
17 “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.
18 “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 Goᴅ.”