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."

1 En in die elfde jaar, in die derde maand, op die eerste van die maand, het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:

2 Mensekind, sê aan Farao, die koning van Egipte, en aan sy menigte: Na wie lyk jy in jou grootheid?

3 Kyk, Assur was 'n seder op die L¡banon, skoon van takke en 'n skaduryke bos en hoog van groei; en sy top was tussen die wolke.

4 Waters het hom grootgemaak; die watervloed het hom hoog laat groei, wat met sy strome gegaan het rondom die plek waar hy geplant was, en sy watervore uitgestuur het na al die bome van die veld.

5 Daarom het hy hoër gegroei as al die bome van die veld, en het sy takke baie geword en sy takkies lank, weens die groot waters toe hy uitgeskiet het.

6 Al die voëls van die hemel het nes gemaak in sy takke, en al die wilde diere van die veld het onder sy takkies aangeteel, en allerhande groot volke het onder sy skaduwee gaan sit.

7 En hy het skoon geword in sy grootheid, in die lengte van sy takke, omdat sy wortel by groot waters was.

8 Seders het nie naby hom gekom in die tuin van God nie, sipresse was nie soos sy takke nie, en platane het nie gehaal by sy takwerk nie: geen boom in die tuin van God was met hom te vergelyk in sy skoonheid nie.

9 Ek het hom mooi gemaak deur die menigte van sy takke, sodat al die bome van Eden wat in die tuin van God was, hom beny het.

10 Daarom, so het die Here HERE gesê: Omdat hy hoog uitgegroei het, en hy sy top tussen die wolke verhef het en hoogmoedig geword het oor sy hoogte,

11 sal Ek hom oorgee in die hand van die magtige onder die nasies; die sal sekerlik met hom handel; vanweë sy goddeloosheid het Ek hom uitgedrywe.

12 Vreemdes, die geweldigste nasies, het hom afgekap en hom neergewerp; op die berge en in al die dale het sy takke geval, en sy takkies is stukkend gebreek in al die klowe van die land; en al die volke van die aarde het uit sy skaduwee weggegaan en hom so laat lê.

13 Al die voëls van die hemel het gaan sit op sy omgevalle stam, en al die wilde diere van die veld was op sy takkies;

14 sodat al die bome wat by water staan, nie hoog sou groei en hulle top nie sou verhef tussen die wolke nie, en hulle magtiges nie sou gaan staan in hulle hoogheid, almal wat water drink nie! Want hulle is almal oorgegee aan die dood om te gaan na die onderste van die aarde, onder die mensekinders, na die wat in die kuil neerdaal.

15 So sê die Here HERE: Op die dag toe hy na die doderyk neergedaal het, het Ek laat treur: Ek het om sy ontwil die watervloed oordek en die strome daarvan teruggehou, sodat die groot waters gestuit is; en Ek het om sy ontwil die L¡banon in swart gehul, en al die bome van die veld het gesmag om sy ontwil.

16 Deur die geluid van sy val het Ek die nasies laat bewe, toe Ek hom na die doderyk laat neerdaal het saam met die wat in die kuil neerdaal; en al die bome van Eden, die uitgesoektes en bestes van die L¡banon, almal waterdrinkers, het hulleself getroos in die onderste van die aarde.

17 Hulle het ook saam met hom neergedaal na die doderyk, na die wat verslaan is deur die swaard, ook sy helpers wat in sy skaduwee gesit het onder die nasies.

18 Na wie lyk jy so in heerlikheid en grootheid onder die bome van Eden? En tog sal jy neergewerp word saam met die bome van Eden na die onderste van die aarde; tussen die onbesnedenes sal jy lê, saam met die wat verslaan is deur die swaard. Dit is Farao en sy hele menigte, spreek die Here HERE.