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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third
month,
in the first
day
of the month,
that
the
word of the L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
2
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to
his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3
Behold, the Assyrian
was
a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud,
and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
4
The waters made him great, the
deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers
unto all the trees of the field.
5
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and
his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when
he shot forth.
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All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did
all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
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Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the
chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his
beauty.
9
I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that
were
in the garden of God, envied him.
10
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath
shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
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I have therefore
delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have
driven him out for his wickedness.
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And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs
are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his
shadow, and have left him.
13
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the
beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
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To the end that none of all the trees by the waters
exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their
trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether
parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
15
Thus
saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered
the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and 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 hell with them that descend into the pit: and
all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the
nether parts of the earth.
17
They also went down into hell with him unto
them that be
slain with
the sword; and
they that were
his arm,
that
dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
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To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou
be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst
of the uncircumcised with
them that be
slain by the sword. This
is
Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.
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