Ezekiel 31:3-18

Ezekiel 31:3-18

[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  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  [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  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  [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.