Ezekiel 31

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Ezekiel 31

Pharaoh Warned of Assyria’s Fate

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1} In the ^(A)eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, ^{Tools
2} “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his ^(B)hordes,

‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

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‘Behold, Assyria was a ^(C)cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And ^(a)^(D)very high,
And its top was among the ^(b)clouds.

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‘The ^(E)waters made it grow, the ^(c)deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually ^(d)extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

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‘Therefore ^(F)its height was loftier than all the trees of the field
And its boughs became many and its branches long
Because of ^(G)many waters ^(e)as it spread them out.

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‘All the ^(H)birds of the heavens nested in its boughs,
And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,
And all great nations lived under its shade.

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‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its ^(f)roots extended to many waters.

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‘The ^(I)cedars in ^(J)God’s garden ^(g)could not match it;
The ^(h)cypresses ⁽ⁱ⁾could not compare with its boughs,
And the plane trees ^(j)could not match its branches.
No tree in ^(K)God’s garden ^(k)could compare with it in its beauty.

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‘I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches,
And all the trees of ^(L)Eden, which were in the ^(M)garden of God, were jealous of it.

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10} ‘Therefore thus says the Lord ^(l)God, “Because ^(m)it is high in stature and has set its top among the ⁽ⁿ⁾clouds, and its ^(N)heart is haughty in its loftiness, ^{Tools
11} therefore I will give it into the hand of a ^(o)^(O)despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have ^(P)driven it away. ^{Tools
12} ^(Q)Alien ^(R)tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the ^(S)mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have ^(T)gone down from its shade and left it. ^{Tools
13} On its ruin all the ^(U)birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches ^{Tools
14} so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the ^(p)clouds, nor their ^(q)well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the ^(V)earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.”

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15} ‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I ^(W)caused lamentations; I closed the ^(r)deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon ^(s)mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. ^{Tools
16} I made the nations ^(X)quake at the sound of its fall when I made it ^(Y)go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the ^(t)well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of ^(Z)Lebanon, were ^(AA)comforted in the earth beneath. ^{Tools
17} They also ^(AB)went down with it to Sheol to those who were ^(AC)slain by the sword; and those who were its ^(u)strength lived ^(AD)under its shade among the nations.

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18} “To which among the trees of Eden are you thus ^(v)equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the ^(AE)uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. ^(AF)So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”

Footnotes:

a. Ezekiel 31:3: ['Lit ', high of stature]

b. Ezekiel 31:3: ['So Gr; M.T. ', thick boughs]

c. Ezekiel 31:4: ['I.e. subterranean waters']

d. Ezekiel 31:4: ['Lit ', was going]

e. Ezekiel 31:5: ['Lit ', in its sending forth]

f. Ezekiel 31:7: ['Lit ', root was]

g. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Lit ', did]

h. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Or ', Phoenician junipers]

i. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Lit ', did]

j. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Lit ', were not like]

k. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Lit ', did]

l. Ezekiel 31:10: ['Heb ', YHWH, ', usually rendered ', Lord, ', and so throughout the ch']

m. Ezekiel 31:10: ['Lit ', you are]

n. Ezekiel 31:10: ['Or ', thick boughs]

o. Ezekiel 31:11: ['Or ', mighty one]

p. Ezekiel 31:14: ['Or ', thick boughs]

q. Ezekiel 31:14: ['Lit ', drinkers of water]

r. Ezekiel 31:15: ['I.e. subterranean waters']

s. Ezekiel 31:15: ['Lit ', be darkened]

t. Ezekiel 31:16: ['Lit ', drinkers of water]

u. Ezekiel 31:17: ['Lit ', arm]

v. Ezekiel 31:18: ['Lit ', like]

Cross references:

A. Ezekiel 31:1: Jeremiah 52:5; Jeremiah 52:6; Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 32:1

B. Ezekiel 31:2: Ezekiel 29:19; Ezekiel 30:10; Nahum 3:9

C. Ezekiel 31:3: Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 10:34; Ezekiel 17:3; Ezekiel 17:4; Ezekiel 17:22; Ezekiel 31:16; Daniel 4:10; Daniel 4:20-23

D. Ezekiel 31:3: Isaiah 10:33; Ezekiel 31:5; Ezekiel 31:10

E. Ezekiel 31:4: Ezekiel 17:5; Ezekiel 17:8; Revelation 17:1; Revelation 17:15

F. Ezekiel 31:5: Daniel 4:11

G. Ezekiel 31:5: Psalm 1:3; Ezekiel 17:5

H. Ezekiel 31:6: Ezekiel 17:23; Ezekiel 31:13; Daniel 4:12; Daniel 4:21; Matthew 13:32

I. Ezekiel 31:8: Psalm 80:10; Ezekiel 31:3

J. Ezekiel 31:8: Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 31:18

K. Ezekiel 31:8: Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 31:18

L. Ezekiel 31:9: Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 31:18

M. Ezekiel 31:9: Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 31:18

N. Ezekiel 31:10: Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 14:13; Isaiah 14:14; Ezekiel 28:17; Daniel 5:20

O. Ezekiel 31:11: Ezekiel 30:10; Ezekiel 30:11; Ezekiel 32:11; Ezekiel 32:12; Daniel 5:18; Daniel 5:19

P. Ezekiel 31:11: Deuteronomy 18:12; Nahum 3:18

Q. Ezekiel 31:12: Ezekiel 7:21; Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 30:12; Habakkuk 1:6

R. Ezekiel 31:12: Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 30:11; Ezekiel 32:12

S. Ezekiel 31:12: Ezekiel 32:5; Ezekiel 35:8

T. Ezekiel 31:12: Ezekiel 31:17; Daniel 4:14; Nahum 3:17; Nahum 3:18

U. Ezekiel 31:13: Isaiah 18:6; Ezekiel 29:5; Ezekiel 31:6; Ezekiel 32:4

V. Ezekiel 31:14: Numbers 16:30; Numbers 16:33; Psalm 63:9; Ezekiel 26:20; Ezekiel 31:18; Ezekiel 32:24; Amos 9:2; Jonah 2:2; Jonah 2:6; Ephesians 4:9

W. Ezekiel 31:15: Ezekiel 32:7; Nahum 2:10

X. Ezekiel 31:16: Ezekiel 26:15; Ezekiel 27:28; Haggai 2:7

Y. Ezekiel 31:16: Isaiah 14:15; Ezekiel 32:18

Z. Ezekiel 31:16: Isaiah 14:8; Habakkuk 2:17

AA. Ezekiel 31:16: Ezekiel 14:22; Ezekiel 14:23; Ezekiel 32:31

AB. Ezekiel 31:17: Psalm 9:17

AD. Ezekiel 31:17: Ezekiel 31:3; Ezekiel 31:6; Daniel 4:12

AE. Ezekiel 31:18: Jeremiah 9:25; Jeremiah 9:26; Ezekiel 28:10; Ezekiel 32:19; Ezekiel 32:21

AF. Ezekiel 31:18: Psalm 52:7; Matthew 13:19