Chapter 31

And it came to pass in the eleventh ⁶²⁴⁰ year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,²

Son of man, speak³ unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like¹ in thy greatness?

Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing⁵⁶ shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

The waters made him great,¹⁴ the deep set him up on high³¹ with her rivers running⁶ round about his plants, and sent out¹⁴ her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

Therefore his height was exalted¹ above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied,⁴ and his branches became long⁴ because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.¹⁵

All the fowls of heaven made their nests¹⁴ in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth¹ their young, and under his shadow dwelt⁴ all great nations.

Thus was he fair⁴ in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide¹ him: the fir trees were not like¹ his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like¹ unto him in his beauty.

I have made¹ him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of God, envied¹⁷ him.

Therefore thus saith¹ the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up¹ thyself in height, and he hath shot up⁴ his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up¹ in his height;

I have therefore delivered⁴ him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely² deal⁴ with him: I have driven him out¹⁴ for his wickedness.

And strangers,⁵ the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,⁴ and have left⁴ him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen,¹ and his boughs are broken¹¹ by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down⁴ from his shadow, and have left⁴ him.

Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain,⁴ and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt⁴ themselves for their height, neither shoot up⁴ their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up⁴ in their height, all that drink⁶ water: for they are all delivered⁸ unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down⁶ to the pit.

Thus saith¹ the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down² to the grave I caused a mourning:⁵² I covered¹⁴ the deep for him, and I restrained⁴ the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed:¹¹ and I caused Lebanon to mourn⁵⁵ for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

I made the nations to shake⁵² at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down⁵³ to hell with them that descend⁶ into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink⁶ water, shall be comforted¹¹ in the nether parts of the earth.

They also went down¹ into hell with him unto [them that be] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt¹ under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

To whom art thou thus like¹ in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down⁹⁰ with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie⁴ in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith⁷ the Lord GOD.