Ezekiel 31:1-6

Pharaoh as a Felled Cedar of Lebanon 1In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the LORD came to me:

2“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: “ ‘Who can be compared with you in majesty?

3Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest; it towered on high, its top above the thick foliage.

4The waters nourished it, deep springs made it grow tall; their streams flowed all around its base and sent their channels to all the trees of the field.

5So it towered higher than all the trees of the field; its boughs increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of abundant waters.

6All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, all the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.