[1] It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first
[day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [2] Son of
man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in
your greatness? [3] Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with
beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and
its top was among the thick boughs. [4] The waters nourished it, the deep
made it to grow: the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it
sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. [5] Therefore its
stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were
multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it
shot [them] forth. [6] All the birds of the sky made their nests in its
boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth
their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations. [7] Thus was it
beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was
by many waters. [8] The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the
fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its
branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty. [9]
I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees
of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it. [10] Therefore thus
said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set
his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
[11] I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the
nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his
wickedness. [12] Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are
fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and
all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left
him. [13] On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the
animals of the field shall be on his branches; [14] to the end that none of
all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set
their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on
their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to
death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of
men, with those who go down to the pit. [15] Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In
the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep
for him, and I restrained the rivers of it; 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 Sheol with those who descend into the pit;
and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink
water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth. [17] They also went
down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those
who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the
nations. [18] To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the
trees of Eden? yet shall you 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 are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his
multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
