^{1 Ref} Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

^{2 Ref} Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power?

^{3 Ref} See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.

^{4 Ref} It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.

^{5 Ref} In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.

^{6 Ref} In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.

⁷ So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.

^{8 Ref} No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.

^{9 Ref} I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.

^{10 Ref} For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high,

^{11 Ref} I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.

^{12 Ref} And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.

^{13 Ref} All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches:

^{14 Ref} In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.

^{15 Ref} This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.

^{16 Ref} I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.

^{17 Ref} And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations

^{18 Ref} Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

^{1 Ref} And it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the third `month', in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying:

^{2 Ref} `Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and unto his multitude: To whom hast thou been like in thy greatness?

^{3 Ref} Lo, Asshur, a cedar in Lebanon, Fair in branch, and shading bough, and high in stature, And between thickets hath its foliage been.

^{4 Ref} Waters have made it great, The deep hath exalted him with its flowings, Going round about its planting, And its conduits it hath sent forth unto all trees of the field.

^{5 Ref} Therefore higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,

^{6 Ref} In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.

⁷ And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.

^{8 Ref} Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,

^{9 Ref} Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that `are' in the garden of God.

^{10 Ref} Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,

^{11 Ref} I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He dealeth sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out.

^{12 Ref} And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.

^{13 Ref} On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field,

^{14 Ref} In order that none of the trees of the waters May become haughty because of their stature, Nor give their foliage between thickets, Nor any drinking waters stand up unto them in their haughtiness, For all of them are given up to death, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the sons of men, Unto those going down to the pit.

^{15 Ref} Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of his going down to sheol I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, And restrained are many waters, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field have been covered for him.

^{16 Ref} From the sound of his fall I have caused nations to shake, In My causing him to go down to sheol, With those going down to the pit, And comforted in the earth -- the lower part, are all trees of Eden, The choice and the good of Lebanon, All drinking waters.

^{17 Ref} Also they with him have gone down to sheol, Unto the pierced of the sword, And -- his arm -- they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations.

^{18 Ref} Unto whom hast thou been thus like, In honour and in greatness among the trees of Eden, And thou hast been brought down with the trees of Eden, Unto the earth -- the lower part, In the midst of the uncircumcised thou liest, With the pierced of the sword? It `is' Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'