Ezekiel 31:2-9

Ezekiel 31:2-9

[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.