1. On the first day of the third month of the eleventh year of our exile, the Lord spoke to me.
2. “Mortal man,” he said, “say to the king of Egypt and all his people:How powerful you are!What can I compare you to?
3. You are like a cedar in Lebanon,With beautiful, shady branches,A tree so tall it reaches the clouds.
4. There was water to make it grow,And underground rivers to feed it.They watered the place where the tree was growingAnd sent streams to all the trees of the forest.
5. Because it was well watered,It grew taller than other trees.Its branches grew thick and long.