¹In the eleventh year , in the third month , in the first day of the month , the LORD ’s word came to me , saying ,

²“Son of man , tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude :

‘Whom are you like in your greatness ?

³Behold , the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon

with beautiful branches ,

and with a forest-like shade ,

of high stature ;

and its top was amongst the thick boughs .

⁴The waters nourished it .

The deep made it to grow .

Its rivers ran all around its plantation .

It sent out its channels to all the trees of the field .

⁵Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field ;

and its boughs were multiplied .

Its branches became long by reason of many waters ,

when it spread them out .

⁶All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs .

Under its branches , all the animals of the field gave birth to their young .

All great nations lived under its shadow .

⁷Thus it was beautiful in its greatness ,

in the length of its branches ;

for its root was by many waters .

⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it .

The cypress trees were not like its branches .

The pine trees were not like its branches ;

nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty .

⁹I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches ,

so that all the trees of Eden ,

that were in the garden of God, envied it .’

¹⁰“Therefore thus said the Lord GOD : ‘Because he is exalted in stature , and he has set his top amongst the thick branches , and his heart is lifted up in his height ,

¹¹I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations . He will surely deal with him . I have driven him out for his wickedness .

¹²Foreigners , the tyrants of the nations , have cut him off and have left him . His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys , and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow and have left him .

¹³All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin , and all the animals of the field will be on his branches ,

¹⁴to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature , and don’t set their top amongst the thick boughs . Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height , even all who drink water ; for they are all delivered to death , to the lower parts of the earth, amongst the children of men , with those who go down to the pit.’

¹⁵“The Lord GOD says : ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol , I caused a mourning . I covered the deep for him , and I restrained its rivers . The great waters were stopped . I caused Lebanon to mourn for him , and all the trees of the field fainted for him .[#31:15 Sheol is the place of the dead.]

¹⁶I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall , when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit . All the trees of Eden , the choice and best of Lebanon , all that drink water , were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.[#31:16 Sheol is the place of the dead.]

¹⁷They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword ; yes , those who were his arm , who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations .

¹⁸“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness amongst the trees of Eden ? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised , with those who are slain by the sword .

“‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude ,’ says the Lord GOD .”