Ezekiel:31

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* Now it came to pass in the eleventh year , in the third month , on the first day of the month , that the word of the LORD came to me , saying , * "Son of man , say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude : "Whom are you like in your greatness ? * Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon , With fine branches that shaded the forest , And of high stature ; And its top was among the thick boughs . * The waters made it grow ; Underground waters gave it height , With their rivers running around the place where it was planted , And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field . * "Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field ; Its boughs were multiplied , And its branches became long because of the abundance of water , As it sent them out . * All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs ; Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young ; And in its shadow all great nations made their home . * "Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches , Because its roots reached to abundant waters . * The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it ; The fir trees were not like its boughs , And the chestnut trees were not like its branches ; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty . * I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches , So that all the trees of Eden envied it , That were in the garden of God .' * "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD : "Because you have increased in height , and it set its top among the thick boughs , and its heart was lifted up in its height , * therefore I will deliver it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations , and he shall surely deal with it ; I have driven it out for its wickedness . * And aliens , the most terrible of the nations , have cut it down and left it ; its branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys ; its boughs lie broken by all the rivers of the land ; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from under its shadow and left it . * "On its ruin will remain all the birds of the heavens , And all the beasts of the field will come to its branches -- * "So that no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves for their height , nor set their tops among the thick boughs , that no tree which drinks water may ever be high enough to reach up to them . "For they have all been delivered to death , To the depths of the earth , Among the children of men who go down to the Pit .' * "Thus says the Lord GOD : "In the day when it went down to hell , I caused mourning . I covered the deep because of it . I restrained its rivers , and the great waters were held back . I caused Lebanon to mourn for it , and all the trees of the field wilted because of it . * I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall , when I cast it down to hell together 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 depths of the earth . * They also went down to hell with it , with those slain by the sword ; and those who were its strong arm dwelt in its shadows among the nations . * "To which of the trees in Eden will you then be likened in glory and greatness ? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the depths of the earth ; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised , with those slain by the sword . This is Pharaoh and all his multitude ,' says the Lord GOD ."

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