King James VersionEzekiel31

Ezekiel

1 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, 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his mul­ti­tude; Whom art thou like in thy great­ness? 3 Be­hold, the As­syr­i­an was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branch­es, and with a shad­ow­ing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The wa­ters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers run­ning round about his plants, and sent out her lit­tle rivers unto all the trees of the field. 5 There­fore his height was ex­alt­ed above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were mul­ti­plied, and his branch­es be­came long be­cause of the mul­ti­tude of wa­ters, when he shot forth. 6 All the fowls of heav­en made their nests in his boughs, and un­der his branch­es did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and un­der his shad­ow dwelt all great na­tions. 7 Thus was he fair in his great­ness, in the length of his branch­es: for his root was by great wa­ters. 8 The cedars in the gar­den of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the ches­nut trees were not like his branch­es; nor any tree in the gar­den of God was like unto him in his beau­ty. 9 I have made him fair by the mul­ti­tude of his branch­es: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the gar­den of God, en­vied him. 10 There­fore thus saith the Lord GOD; Be­cause thou hast lift­ed up thy­self in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lift­ed up in his height; 11 I have there­fore de­liv­ered him into the hand of the mighty one of the hea­then; he shall sure­ly deal with him: I have driv­en him out for his wicked­ness. 12 And strangers, the ter­ri­ble of the na­tions, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the moun­tains and in all the val­leys his branch­es are fall­en, and his boughs are bro­ken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peo­ple of the earth are gone down from his shad­ow, and have left him. 13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heav­en re­main, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branch­es: 14 To the end that none of all the trees by the wa­ters ex­alt them­selves for their height, nei­ther shoot up their top among the thick boughs, nei­ther their trees stand up in their height, all that drink wa­ter: for they are all de­liv­ered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the chil­dren of men, with them that go down to the pit. 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourn­ing: I cov­ered the deep for him, and I re­strained the floods there­of, 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 hell with them that de­scend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink wa­ter, shall be com­fort­ed in the nether parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt un­der his shad­ow in the midst of the hea­then. 18 To whom art thou thus like in glo­ry and in great­ness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the un­cir­cum­cised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his mul­ti­tude, saith the Lord GOD.