Yechezkel 31 יחזקאל ל״א

And 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,

Son of man, speak to Par῾o king of Miżrayim, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

Behold, Ashshur was a cedar in the Levanon with fair branches, amid a shadowing forest, and of a high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high, with her rivers running round about her plants, and she sent out her little canals to all the trees of the field.

Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when it shot them forth.

All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young, and under its shadow all great nations dwelt.

Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches: for its root was by many waters.

The cedars in the garden of God could not obscure it: the cypress trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its branches; nor did any tree in the garden of God compare with it in beauty.

I have made it fair by the multitude of its branches: so that all the trees of ῾Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Therefore thus says the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs were broken by all the water courses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Upon his ruin shall dwell all the birds of the sky, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

so that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their height, nor shoot up their top among the thick boughs, and that their trunks do not tower on high, all that drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Thus says the Lord God; In the day when he went down to She᾽ol I caused the deep to mourn, to cover itself for him, I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I wrapped Levanon in gloom for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

I made the nations shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to She᾽ol with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of ῾Eden, the choice and best of Levanon, all that drink water were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

They also went down into She᾽ol with him, to them that are slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of nations.

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of ῾Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of ῾Eden to the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Par῾o and all his multitude, says the Lord God.