Ezekiel 31:1-9

English Standard Version

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.
⁷It was ^(N)beautiful in its greatness,
    in the length of its branches;
^(O)for its roots went down
    to abundant waters.
⁸^(P)The cedars ^(Q)in the garden of God could not rival it,
    nor the fir trees equal its boughs;
neither were the plane trees
    like its branches;
no tree ^(R)in the garden of God
    was its equal in beauty.
⁹I made it beautiful
    in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of ^(S)Eden envied it,
    that were in the garden of God.