1. In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
2. “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness?
3. Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height,its top among the clouds.
4. The waters nourished it;the deep made it grow tall,making its rivers flowaround the place of its planting,sending forth its streamsto all the trees of the field.
5. So it towered highabove all the trees of the field;its boughs grew largeand its branches longfrom abundant water in its shoots.