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Chapter 31 |
| 1 | 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, |
| 2 | Son of man,
speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in
thy greatness? |
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3 | 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. |
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4 | The waters made him great, the deep set
him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her
little rivers unto all the trees of the field. |
| 5 | 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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | Thus was
he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by
great waters. |
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8 | The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him:
the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like
his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his
beauty. |
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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. |
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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; |
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11 | 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. |
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12 | 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. |
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13 | Upon his ruin shall all
the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon
his branches: |
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14 | 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. |
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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. |
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16 | 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. |
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| 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. |
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18 | 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. |
