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] it31:10 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 cedar31:15 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."