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Ezekiel 31

Pharaoh Warned of Assyria's Fate

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In the  aeleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

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"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his  ahordes, `Whom are you like in your greatness?

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`Behold, Assyria was a  acedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade, And  1 bvery high, And its top was among the  2clouds.

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`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.

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`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.

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`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.

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`So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; For its  1roots extended to many waters.

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`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.

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`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.

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`Therefore thus says the Lord  1GOD, "Because  2it is high in stature and has set its top among the  3clouds, and its  aheart is haughty in its loftiness,

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therefore I will give it into the hand of a  1 adespot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have  bdriven it away.

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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.

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"On its ruin all the  abirds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches

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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."

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`Thus says the Lord GOD, "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.

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"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.

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"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.

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"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 GOD."



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