31:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the third month, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the
Lord came to me, saying,
31:2 Son of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude; To whom
hast thou compared thyself in thy haughtiness?
31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Libanus, and was fair in shoots,
and high in stature: his top reached to the midst of the clouds.
31:4 The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her
rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the
trees of the field.
31:5 Therefore, was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field,
and his branches spread far by the help of much water.
31:6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of
nations dwelt under his shadow.
31:7 And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his
branches: for his roots were amidst much water.
31:8 And such cypresses [as this] were in the paradise of God; and there
were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no
tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,
31:9 because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God's
paradise of delight envied him.
31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou art grown great, and hast
set thy top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;
31:11 therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations,
and he wrought his destruction.
31:12 And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have
cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and
his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the
nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
31:13 All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the
wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs:
31:14 in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves
by reason of their size: whereas they set their top in the midst of the
clouds, yet they continued not in their high state in their place, all that
drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the
midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
31:15 Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the
deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance
of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted
for him.
31:16 At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down
to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight
comforted him in the heart, and the choice of [plants] of Libanus, all that
drink water.
31:17 For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword;
and his seed, [even] they that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst
of their life.
31:18 To whom art thou compared? descend, and be thou debased with the trees
of paradise to the depth of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharao be,
and the multitude of his host, saith the Lord God. |
31:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of
the LORD came unto me, saying,
31:2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude;
Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and
with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the
thick boughs.
31:4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers
running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the
trees of the field.
31:5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and
his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the
multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
31:6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under
his shadow dwelt all great nations.
31:7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for
his root was by great waters.
31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were
not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor
any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
31:9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the
trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
31:10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself
in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart
is lifted up in his height;
31:11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the
heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his
wickedness.
31:12 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 are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people
of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the
beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
31:14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves
for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all
delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the
children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
31:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I
caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods
thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for
him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him
down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden,
the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in
the nether parts of the earth.
31:17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with
the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the
midst of the heathen.
31:18 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 unto the
nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised
with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord GOD. |