Ezequiel 31

Faraó é admoestado pelo destino da Assíria

1 *Ez 30.20;32.1;Jr 52.5-6No undécimo ano, no terceiro mês, ao primeiro dia do mês, veio a mim a palavra de Jeová, dizendo: 2 Filho do homem, dize a Faraó e à sua *Ez 29.19;30.10;Na 3.8-9multidão: *Ez 31.18;Is 14.13-14A quem és semelhante na tua grandeza? 3 Eis que *Na 3.1, etc.;Sf 2.13Assíria era um *Ez 31.16;Ez 17.3-4,22;Is 10.33-34;Dn 4.10,20-23cedro do Líbano, de ramos formosos, *Ez 17.23de ramagem sombria e *Ez 31.5,10;Is 10.33de alta estatura; e a sua copa se achava entre a densa ramada. 4 *Ez 17.5,8;Ap 17.1,15As águas nutriram-no, o abismo fê-lo crescer; os seus rios corriam em torno do seu plantio; e ele mandou os seus regatos a todas as árvores do campo. 5 Por isso, *Ez 31.3,10se elevou a sua estatura sobre todas as árvores do campo; multiplicaram-se *Sl 37.35os seus ramos e alongaram-se as suas varas por causa das *Ez 17.5;Sl 1.3muitas águas, quando os enviou. 6 Todas as *Ez 31.12-13;Ez 17.23;Dn 4.12,21;Mt 13.32aves do céu se aninhavam nos ramos dele, e, debaixo das suas varas davam à luz as suas crias todos os animais do campo, e, debaixo da sua sombra, habitavam todas as grandes nações. 7 Assim era ele *Ez 31.2,9formoso na sua grandeza, no cumprimento das suas varas, porque a sua raiz se achava junto a muitas águas. 8 Os *Ez 31.3;Sl 80.10cedros do *Ez 31.16,18;Ez 28.13;Gn 2.8-9;13.10;Is 51.3jardim de Deus não o podiam esconder; os ciprestes não eram como os seus ramos, e os plátanos não eram como as suas varas; nenhuma árvore do jardim de Deus se assemelhava a ele na sua formosura. 9 Fi-lo *Ez 16.14formoso pela multidão dos seus ramos; de maneira que tiveram inveja dele todas as árvores do Éden, que havia no jardim de Deus.

10 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor Jeová: Porquanto é *Ez 31.3,5elevado em estatura, e se elevou a sua copa entre a densa ramada, e *Ez 28.17;2Cr 32.25;Is 10.12;14.13-14;Dn 5.20o seu coração se levantou na sua altura, 11 entregá-lo-ei nas mãos do *Ez 30.10-11;32.11-12;Dn 5.18-19poderoso das nações; certamente, este há de tratar com ele. Eu o *Dt 18.12;Na 3.18lancei fora por causa da sua maldade. 12 Uns *Ez 7.21;28.7;30.12;Hc 1.6estrangeiros, *Ez 28.7;30.11;32.12os terríveis das nações, o exterminaram, e o deixaram; sobre os *Ez 32.5;35.8montes e em todos os vales, caíram as suas varas, e os seus ramos estão quebrados junto a todas as correntes da terra; todos os povos da terra *Ez 31.17;Dn 4.14;Na 3.17-18se retiraram da sua sombra e o deixaram. 13 Sobre a sua ruína habitarão todas as *Ez 31.6;Ez 29.5;32.4;Is 18.6aves do céu, e todos os animais do campo estarão sobre as suas varas; 14 para que nenhuma de todas as árvores junto às águas se exalte na sua estatura, nem levante a sua copa entre a densa ramada, nem se levantem na sua altura os seus poderosos, sim, todos os que bebem água, porque todos eles estão entregues *Ez 31.16-17à morte, *Ez 31.18;Ez 26.20;32.24;Nm 16.30,33;Sl 63.9;Am 9.2;Jn 2.2,6;Ef 4.9às partes inferiores da terra, no meio dos filhos dos homens, juntamente com os que descem à cova.

15 Assim diz o Senhor Jeová: No dia em que ele *Ez 32.22-23desceu ao Sheol, *Ez 32.7;Na 2.10fiz que houvesse luto. Por causa dele, cobri o abismo e retive os seus rios, e ficaram paradas as grandes águas; e fiz que o Líbano o pranteasse, e todas as árvores do campo desfaleceram por causa dele. 16 Fiz *Ez 26.15;27.28;Ag 2.7estremecer as nações ao som da sua queda, quando *Ez 32.18;Is 14.15o lancei no Sheol juntamente com os que descem à cova; e todas as árvores do *Ez 31.8-9Éden, as escolhidas e as melhores do *Is 14.8;Hc 2.17Líbano, todas as que bebem água, foram *Ez 14.22-23;32.31consoladas nas *Ez 31.14,18partes inferiores da terra. 17 Juntamente com ele, *Sl 9.17desceram ao Sheol os que foram *Ez 32.18-20;Is 14.9;Na 3.17-18mortos à espada, sim, desceram com ele os que foram o seu braço e que habitavam *Ez 31.3,6;Dn 4.12debaixo da sua sombra, no meio das nações.

18 A *Ez 31.2;Ez 32.19-21quem és assim semelhante em glória e em grandeza entre as árvores do *Ez 31.8-9Éden? Contudo, serás precipitado juntamente com as árvores do Éden *Ez 31.14às partes inferiores da terra; no meio *Ez 28.10;32.19,21;Jr 9.25-26dos incircuncisos, te deitarás juntamente com os que forem *Ez 31.17mortos à espada. *Sl 52.7;Mt 13.19Este é Faraó e toda a sua multidão, diz o Senhor Jeová.

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,*31:15 Sheol is the place of the dead. 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*31:16 Sheol is the place of the dead. 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."