Ezekiel 31:1-6

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Pharaoh to Be Slain

31 ^(A)In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²^(B)“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to ^(C)his multitude:

^(D)“Whom are you like in your greatness?
³    Behold, ^(E)Assyria was a ^(F)cedar in ^(G)Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and ^(H)forest shade,
    ^(I)and of towering height,
    its top among the clouds.^[a]
⁴The waters nourished it;
    the deep made it grow tall,
making ^(J)its rivers flow
    around the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
    to all the trees of the field.
⁵So ^(K)it towered high
    above all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large
    and its branches long
    from ^(L)abundant water in its shoots.
⁶^(M)All the birds of the heavens
    made their nests in its boughs;
under its branches all the beasts of the field
    gave birth to their young,
and under its shadow
    lived all great nations.

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Ezekiel 31:3 Or its top went through the thick boughs

Ezekiel 31:10-14

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¹⁰“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because ^(A)it^[a] towered high and set its top among the clouds,^[b] and ^(B)its heart was proud of its height, ¹¹I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out. ¹²^(C)Foreigners, ^(D)the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. ^(E)On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all ^(F)the ravines of the land, and ^(G)all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. ¹³^(H)On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. ¹⁴^(I)All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds,^[c] and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, ^(J)to the world ^(K)below, among the children of man,^[d] with those who go down to the pit.