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1And then in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,[#Literally “and it happened/it was”; #Literally “on one ten”; #Literally “was”; #Literally “to say”]
2“Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd,[#Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”; #Or “hordes”]
‘To whom are you like in your greatness?
3Look! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
and very high,
4Waters made it great,
its rivers were going all around its planting area,
5Therefore it became tall,
and its branches became numerous,
6In its branches all the birds of the heaven made their nest,[#Hebrew “bird”; #Or “sky”]
7And it was beautiful in its greatness,
8Cedars in the garden of God
fir trees could not resemble its branches,
any tree even in the garden of God
9I made it beautiful with the abundance of its branches,
10Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because it was tall in height and it set its treetop between thick clouds, and he took pride in his tallness,[#Literally “because that”; #Hebrew “to between”; #Literally “and his heart he raised in his tallness”]
11then I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he dealt thoroughly with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out.[#Or “and”; #Literally “doing he did”]
12And strangers cut it off, the most ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all of the valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it.
13On its fallen trunk all the birds of the heaven now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches.[#Hebrew “bird”; #Or “sky”]
14This occurred so that all of the trees with abundant water will not become tall, and they will not set their treetop between their thick foliage, and so thatall of the trees that are abundantly watered will not stand up to them in their tallness, for all of them, they have been given over to death, to the world below in the midst of mortals, to the people going down to the grave.”[#Or “among”; #Or “clouds”; #Literally “all of the drinkers of water”; #Literally “will not stand to them”; #Literally “sons of men,” or “children of humankind”; #Or “pit”]
15Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “On the day of its going down to Sheol, I caused mourning; I covered over it with the deep, and I withheld its rivers, and many waters were restrained, and I brought gloom over it; Lebanon and all of the trees of the field, they had fainted because of it.
16From the sound of its downfall I caused nations to shake when I made it go down to Sheol, with the people going down to the grave, and so in the world below all of the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees were comforted![#Or “the pit”; #Literally “all ofthe drinkers of water”]
17They also went down with it to Sheol to those who died by the sword, and its army who had lived in its shadow in the midst of nations.[#Literally “to the slain of the sword”]
18To whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majesty among the trees of Eden? And yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie with those who died by the sword. That is Pharaoh and his entire crowd!” declares the Lord Yahweh.[#Literally “To who you are like as in glory and in majesty”; #Literally “the slain of the sword”; #Literally “all his hordes/crowd”; #Or “hordes”; #Literally “declaration of”]