Ezekiel 31

Pharaoh to Be Slain

1 *See ch. 20:1In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 *See ch. 2:1"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to *[ch. 29:19;30:4;32:12,16,20,31,32] his multitude:

*[ver. 18; ch. 32:19]"Whom are you like in your greatness?

3 Behold, *[Isa. 10:34]; See Dan. 4:10, 20-22Assyria was a *See Judg. 9:15cedar in *[ver. 15, 16] Lebanon,

with beautiful branches and *[ch. 17:23] forest shade,

*[Isa. 10:33]and of towering height,

its top among the clouds.*31:3 Or its top went through the thick boughs

4 The waters nourished it;

the deep made it grow tall,

making *[ch. 17:7]its rivers flow

around the place of its planting,

sending forth its streams

to all the trees of the field.

5 So *[Dan. 4:11] it towered high

above all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large

and its branches long

from *ch. 17:5;[Ps. 1:3]abundant water in its shoots.

6 *ch. 17:23;Dan. 4:12,21All the birds of the heavens

made their nests in its boughs;

under its branches all the beasts of the field

gave birth to their young,

and under its shadow

lived all great nations.

7 It was *[ver. 2] beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches;

*[See ver. 5above]for its roots went down

to abundant waters.

8 *[Amos 2:9] The cedars *ch. 28:13;[ver. 16, 18]in the garden of God could not rival it,

nor the fir trees equal its boughs;

neither were the plane trees

like its branches;

no tree *ch. 28:13;[ver. 16, 18]in the garden of God

was its equal in beauty.

9 I made it beautiful

in the mass of its branches,

and all the trees of *See Isa. 51:3Eden envied it,

that were in the garden of God.

10 "Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because *[ver. 3] it*31:10 Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew you towered high and set its top among the clouds,*31:10 Or its top through the thick boughs and *Dan. 5:20;[Isa. 10:12]its heart was proud of its height, 11 I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out. 12 *See ch. 28:7Foreigners, *See ch. 28:7the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. *[ch. 32:5] On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all *[ch. 6:3] the ravines of the land, and *[Dan. 4:14]all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. 13 *ch. 32:4On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. 14 *[ver. 5] All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds,*31:14 Or their tops through the thick boughs and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, *[ver. 16, 18; ch. 26:20;32:18,24] to the world *Ps. 63:9below, among the children of man,*31:14 Or of Adam with those who go down to the pit.

15 "Thus says the Lord God: On the day *[ch. 32:18,21;Isa. 14:9,10]the cedar*31:15 Hebrew it went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. 16 *[ch. 26:15] I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, *[See ver. 15above] when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. *ver. 9;[Isa. 14:8] And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, *[ch. 32:31]were comforted in the world below. 17 They also went down to Sheol with it, *ch. 32:20,21;35:8to those who are slain by the sword; yes, *[ch. 30:5,6,8] those who were its arm, *[ver. 6]who lived under its shadow among the nations.

18 *[ver. 2] "Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness *[See ver. 16above] among the trees of Eden? *[Matt. 11:23;Luke 10:15] You shall be brought down with *[See ver. 16above] the trees of Eden to the world below. *ch. 28:10;32:19,21,24,25,28You shall lie among the uncircumcised, *[See ver. 17above]with those who are slain by the sword.

*[ver. 2] "This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God."