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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 31
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the third
month, the first day of the month, that the word of
the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his
people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar in Libanus, with
fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature,
and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.
The waters nourished him, the deep set him up on high,
the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it
sent forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.
Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees
of the country: and his branches were multiplied, and
his boughs were elevated because of many waters.
And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls
of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the
beasts of the forest brought forth their young under
his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt
under his shadow.
And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for
the spreading of his branches: for his root was near
great waters.
The cedars in the paradise of God wars not higher than
he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were
the plane trees to be compared with him for branches:
no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.
For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches:
and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise
of God, envied him.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God Because he was exalted
in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and
his heart was lifted up in his height:
I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one
of the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast
him out according to his wickedness.
And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall
cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains,
and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches
shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all
the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow,
and leave him.
All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all
the beasts of the field were among his branches.
For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall
exalt themselves for their height: nor shoot up their
tops among the thick branches and leaves, neither shall
any of them that are watered stand up in their height:
for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest
parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of
men, with them that go down into the pit.
Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down
to hell, I brought in mourning, I covered him with the
deep: and I withheld its rivers, and restrained the
many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all the trees
of the field trembled.
I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when
I brought him down to hell with them that descend into
the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and
best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters,
were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.
For they also shall go down with him to hell to them
that are slain by the sword: and the arm of every one
shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the
nations.
To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty
among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought
down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts
of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised,
with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao,
and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. |
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