Ezekiel 31
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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 LORD came unto me,
saying,
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Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy
greatness?
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Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar
in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a
high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
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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.
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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.
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The cedars in the garden of God Gen.
2.9 could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his
boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; not any
tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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