Ezekiel 31
31
Pharaoh to Be Slain
1In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, # Jer 52:5–6; Eze 30:20 the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude:
Whom are you like in your greatness? # Eze 29:19; 30:10
3Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
with fair branches and shade for a forest,
and high stature;
and its top was among the clouds. # Isa 10:33–34; Da 4:10
4The waters made it great;
the deep set it up on high.
With its rivers it continually ran
all around its plants,
and sent out its little rivers
to all the trees of the field. # Eze 17:5, 8
5Therefore its height was exalted
above all the trees of the field,
and its boughs were multiplied,
and its branches became long
because of the abundance of water, as it spread them out. # Da 4:11
6All the fowl of heaven
made their nests in its boughs;
and under its branches
all the beasts of the field gave birth;
and under its shadow
all great nations lived. # Eze 17:23; Da 4:12
7Thus it was fair in its greatness,
in the length of its branches,
for its roots were
by many waters.
8The cedars in the garden of God
could not match it;
the fir trees
were not like its boughs,
and the chestnut trees
were not like its branches;
nor was any tree in the garden of God # Ge 13:10; Eze 28:13
like it in its beauty.
9I made it beautiful with an abundance of branches,
so that all the trees of Eden envied it,
that were in the garden of God. # Isa 51:3
10Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because it is lifted up in height and has shot up its top among the clouds, and its heart is arrogant in its height, # Eze 28:17; Da 5:20 11I therefore will deliver it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it. I have driven it out for its wickedness. # Dt 18:12 12Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations have cut it off and left it. # Eze 28:7; 30:11 Upon the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, # Eze 35:8 and its boughs have been broken by all the rivers of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shadow and have left it. 13Upon its ruin all the fowl of the heavens shall remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon its fallen branches # Isa 18:6; Eze 32:4 14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, or shoot up their tops among the clouds, or their well-watered trees stand up in their height, for they all have been delivered to death, # Ps 82:7 to the nether parts of the earth in the midst of the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit. # Eze 26:20
15Thus says the Lord God: On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused mourning. I covered the deep over it and restrained its rivers, and its many waters were stayed. And I caused Lebanon to mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted for it. 16I made the nations to shake at the sound of its fall # Eze 26:15 when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. # Isa 14:15 And all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, # Isa 14:8 were comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17They also went down into Sheol # Ps 9:17 with it to those who were slain with the sword. And those who were its power lived under its shadow in the midst of the nations. # Eze 31:6
18To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those who were slain by the sword. # Eze 28:10; 32:19, 21
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord God.
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