1. Now it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude:‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
3. Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,With fine branches that shaded the forest,And of high stature;And its top was among the thick boughs.
4. The waters made it grow;Underground waters gave it height,With their rivers running around the place where it was planted,And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field.
5. ‘Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field;Its boughs were multiplied,And its branches became long because of the abundance of water,As it sent them out.
6. All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs;Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young;And in its shadow all great nations made their home.