Ezekiel 31

Pharaoh to Be Slain 1In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 2"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness? 3   Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and forest shade,
   and of towering height,
   its top among the clouds.Or its top went through the thick boughs 4The waters nourished it;
   the deep made it grow tall,
making its rivers flow
   around the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
   to all the trees of the field. 5So it towered high
   above all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large
   and its branches long
   from abundant water in its shoots. 6All the birds of the heavens
   made their nests in its boughs;
under its branches all the beasts of the field
   gave birth to their young,
and under its shadow
   lived all great nations. 7It was beautiful in its greatness,
   in the length of its branches;
for its roots went down
   to abundant waters. 8The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it,
   nor the fir trees equal its boughs;
neither were the plane trees
   like its branches;
no tree in the garden of God
   was its equal in beauty. 9I made it beautiful
   in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of Eden envied it,
   that were in the garden of God.

10Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because itSyriac, Vulgate; Hebrew you towered high and set its top among the clouds,Or its top through the thick boughs and its heart was proud of its height, 11I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out. 12Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains 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 gone away from its shadow and left it. 13On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. 14All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds,Or their tops through the thick boughs and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man,Or of Adam with those who go down to the pit.

15Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day the cedarHebrew it went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. 16I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below. 17They also went down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were its arm, who lived under its shadow among the nations.

18Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD."