1 Em 21 de junho, no décimo primeiro ano do exílio do rei Joaquim, recebi esta mensagem do Senhor. 2 "Filho do homem, transmita esta mensagem ao faraó, rei do Egito, e a todas as suas multidões:

"Quem é comparável a você em grandeza?

3 Veja a poderosa Assíria,

que antes era como um cedro do Líbano,

com lindos ramos que davam muita sombra

e cujo topo alcançava as nuvens.

4 Fontes profundas o regavam

e o faziam crescer e ficar viçoso.

A água corria à sua volta como um rio

e fluía para todas as árvores do campo.

5 Elevou-se acima de todas as árvores

que havia ao seu redor.

Cresceu e deu ramos longos e espessos,

pela fartura de água em suas raízes.

6 As aves se aninhavam em seus ramos,

e os animais selvagens davam crias à sua sombra.

Todas as grandes nações do mundo

viviam sob seus galhos.

7 Era forte e belo,

com ramos amplos, que se espalhavam,

pois suas raízes eram profundas

e chegavam às fontes de água.

8 Nenhum outro cedro no jardim de Deus

se comparava a ele.

Nenhum cipreste tinha ramos como os dele,

nenhum plátano tinha galhos semelhantes.

Nenhuma árvore no jardim de Deus

era tão bela quanto ele.

9 Fiz esse cedro tão lindo

e lhe dei folhagem tão magnífica

que ele era motivo de inveja de todas as árvores do Éden,

o jardim de Deus.

10 "Portanto, assim diz o Senhor Soberano: Porque o Egito se tornou orgulhoso e arrogante e se elevou tanto acima dos outros, e seu topo chegou até as nuvens, 11 eu o entregarei a uma nação poderosa que lhe dará o que merece por sua maldade. Sim, eu já o rejeitei. 12 Um exército estrangeiro, o terror das nações, o derrubou e o deixou caído no chão. Seus ramos estão espalhados entre os montes e os vales da terra, e todos que viviam à sua sombra foram embora e o deixaram ali jogado.

13 "As aves pousam em seu tronco caído,

e os animais selvagens descansam entre seus ramos.

14 Que nenhuma árvore de outra nação

exulte com orgulho de sua prosperidade,

ainda que seja mais alta que as nuvens

e muito bem regada.

Pois todas estão condenadas a morrer,

a descer às profundezas da terra.

Cairão na cova

com todo o resto do mundo.

15 "Assim diz o Senhor Soberano: Quando a Assíria desceu à sepultura, fiz as fontes profundas ficarem de luto. Detive o curso de seus rios e sequei suas muitas águas. Vesti o Líbano de preto e fiz as árvores do campo murcharem. 16 Fiz as nações tremerem de medo ao som de sua queda, pois a enviei para a sepultura junto com todos que descem à cova. E todas as outras árvores do Éden, as mais belas e excelentes do Líbano, aquelas cujas raízes descem até as águas profundas, se consolaram nas profundezas da terra. 17 Seus aliados também foram todos destruídos e morreram. Todas as nações que tinham vivido à sua sombra desceram à sepultura.

18 "Ó Egito, a qual dessas árvores do Éden você comparará sua força e sua glória? Você também será lançado nas profundezas, junto com todas essas nações. Ficará caído no meio dos rejeitados que morreram à espada. Esse será o destino do faraó e de todas as suas multidões. Eu, o Senhor Soberano, falei!".

1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’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?

3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon

with beautiful branches,

and with a forest-like shade,

of high stature;

and its top was among the thick boughs.

4 The 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.

5 Therefore 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.

6 All 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.

7 Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches;

for its root was by many waters.

8 The 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.

9 I 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 Yahweh: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up in his height, 11 I 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. 12 Foreigners, 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. 13 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches, 14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among 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, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

15 "The Lord Yahweh 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. 16 I 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. 17 They 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 among 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 Yahweh."