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| 1In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: | 1In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
| 2“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness? | 2“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Who can be compared to your greatness? |
| 3Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds. | 3Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds. |
| 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. | 4The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels 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. | 5Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the abundant waters. |
| 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. | 6All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade. |
| 7It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters. | 7It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended 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. | 8The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its 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. | 9I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’ |
| 10“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height, | 10Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account 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. | 11I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it. |
| 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. | 12Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it. |
| 13On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. | 13All the birds of the air nested on its fallen trunk, and all the beasts of the field lived among its boughs. |
| 14All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, 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, with those who go down to the pit. | 14This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’ |
| 15“Thus says the Lord GOD: On the day the cedar 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. | 15This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn 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. | 16I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth 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. | 17They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations. |
| 18“Whom 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.” | 18Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’ ” |
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