| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 10 | 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; |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 15 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 17 | 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. |
| 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. |
