And it came to pass in the eleventh year
, in the third
month , in the first
day of the month
, that the word
of the LORD
came unto me, saying
,
Son of man
, speak
unto Pharaoh
king
of Egypt
, and to his multitude
; Whom art thou like
in thy greatness
?
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar
in Lebanon
with fair
branches
, and with a shadowing
shroud
, and of an high
stature
; and his top
was among the thick boughs
.
The waters made him great
, the deep
set him up on high
with her rivers
running
round about
his plants
, and sent out
her little rivers
unto all the trees
of the field
.
Therefore his height was exalted
above all the trees
of the field
, and his boughs
were multiplied
, and his branches
became long
because of the multitude
of waters
, when he shot forth
.
All the fowls of heaven
made their nests
in his boughs
, and under his branches
did all the beasts
of the field
bring forth their young
, and under his shadow
dwelt
all great
nations
.
Thus was he fair in his greatness
, in the length
of his branches
: for his root
was by great
waters
.
The cedars in the garden
of God
could not hide
him: the fir trees
were not like
his boughs
, and the chesnut trees
were not like his branches
; nor any tree
in the garden
of God
was like
unto him in his beauty
.
I have made him fair
by the multitude
of his branches
: so that all the trees
of Eden
, that were in the garden
of God
, envied
him.
Therefore thus saith the Lord
GOD
; Because thou hast lifted up
thyself in height
, and he hath shot up
his top
among the thick boughs
, and his heart
is lifted up
in his height
;
I have therefore delivered him into the hand
of the mighty one
of the heathen
; he shall surely
deal
with him: I have driven him out
for his wickedness
.
And strangers, the terrible
of the nations
, have cut him off
, and have left
him: upon the mountains
and in all the valleys
his branches
are fallen
, and his boughs
are broken
by all the rivers
of the land
; and all the people
of the earth
are gone down
from his shadow
, and have left
him.
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls
of the heaven
remain
, and all the beasts
of the field
shall be upon his branches
:
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters
exalt
themselves for their height
, neither shoot up
their top
among the thick boughs
, neither their trees
stand up
in their height
, all that drink
water
: for they are all delivered
unto death
, to the nether parts
of the earth
, in the midst
of the children
of men
, with them that go down
to the pit
.
Thus saith the Lord
GOD
; In the day
when he went down
to the grave
I caused a mourning
: I covered
the deep
for him, and I restrained
the floods
thereof, and the great
waters
were stayed
: and I caused Lebanon
to mourn
for him, and all the trees
of the field
fainted
for him.
I made the nations to shake
at the sound
of his fall
, when I cast him down
to hell
with them that descend
into the pit
: and all the trees
of Eden
, the choice
and best
of Lebanon
, all that drink
water
, shall be comforted
in the nether parts
of the earth
.
They also went down into hell
with him unto them that be slain
with the sword
; and they that were his arm
, that dwelt
under his shadow
in the midst
of the heathen
.
To whom art thou thus like in glory
and in greatness
among the trees
of Eden
? yet shalt thou be brought down
with the trees
of Eden
unto the nether parts
of the earth
: thou shalt lie
in the midst
of the uncircumcised
with them that be slain
by the sword
. This is Pharaoh
and all his multitude
, saith
the Lord
GOD
.