1. In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, the Lord’s word came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his multitude:‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
3. Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanonwith beautiful branches,and with a forest-like shade,of high stature;and its top was amongst the thick boughs.
4. The waters nourished it.The deep made it to grow.Its rivers ran all around its plantation;and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
5. Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;and its boughs were multiplied.Its branches became long by reason of many waters,when it spread them out.
6. All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs.Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young.All great nations lived under its shadow.
7. Thus was it beautiful in its greatness,in the length of its branches;for its root was by many waters.
8. The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it.The cypress trees were not like its boughs.The pine trees were not as its branches;nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
9. I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,so that all the trees of Eden,that were in the garden of God, envied it.’
10. “Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top amongst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
11. I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12. Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
13. All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches;
14. to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top amongst the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, amongst the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’