Ezekiel:31

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* 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 , * Son of man , speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his people . Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? * Behold , the Assyrian [was a ] cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud and of a high stature ; and his top was [highest ] among the thick boughs . * The waters made him grow ; the deep set him up on high ; her rivers ran round his feet and sent her flow to all the trees of the field . * Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field , and his boughs were multiplied , and his branches became long because of his many waters , which he sent forth . * All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs , and under his branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young , and under his shadow dwelt many Gentiles . * He made himself beautiful in his greatness , with the extension of his branches : for his root was by many waters . * The cedars in the garden of God did not cover 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 . * I have made him beautiful with the multitude of his branches : and all the trees of Eden , that [were ] in the garden of God , envied him . * Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said ; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height , and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs , and his heart is lifted up in his height ; * I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the strong one of the Gentiles ; he shall surely deal with him ; I have cut him down for his wickedness . * And strangers , the strong ones of the Gentiles , shall cut him down and shall leave him ; his branches shall fall upon the mountains and by all the valleys , and his boughs shall be broken by all the rivers of the land ; and all the peoples of the earth shall go forth from his shadow and shall leave him . * Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain , and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches : * to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height , neither shoot up their tops among the thick boughs , neither in their branches shall all that drink waters stand up in their height : for they shall all be delivered unto death , to the lower parts of the earth , in the midst of the sons of men , with those that go down to the grave . * Thus said the Lord GOD ; In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning : I covered the deep for him , and I restrained the floods thereof , and the many waters were stayed : and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him , and all the trees of the field fainted . * I made the Gentiles to shake at the sound of his fall , when I cast him down to Sheol with those that descend into the pit : and all the choice trees of Eden , and the best of Lebanon , all that drink waters , shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth . * They also went down into Sheol with him , with those [that were ] slain with the sword ; and [those that were ] his arm , [that ] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the Gentiles . * To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden ? Yet thou shalt be cut down with the trees of Eden unto the lower parts of the earth : thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [those that are ] slain by the sword . This [is ] Pharaoh and all his people , said the Lord GOD .:

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