¶ And it came to pass in the eleventh¹ year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Son of man, speak² unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his³ multitude; Whom⁴ art thou like in thy greatness?

Behold, the Assyrian⁵ was a cedar⁶ in Lebanon with fair branches⁷, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

The waters⁸ made him great⁹, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

Therefore his height¹⁰ 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 forth¹¹.

¹²All 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.

Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches¹³: for his root was by great waters¹⁴.

The cedars¹⁵ in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any¹⁶ tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

I have made¹⁷ him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees¹⁸ of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied¹⁹ him.

¶ Therefore²⁰ thus saith the Lord GOD; Because²¹ thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his²² heart is lifted up in his height;

I have therefore delivered²³ him into the hand of the mighty²⁴ one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him:²⁵ I have driven²⁶ him out for his wickedness.

And strangers²⁷, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon²⁸ 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 gone²⁹ down from his shadow, and have left him.

³⁰Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

To the end³¹ 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 height³², all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether³³ parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a³⁴ mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn³⁵ for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

I made³⁶ the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I³⁷ cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all³⁸ the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted³⁹ in the nether parts of the earth.

They also went⁴⁰ down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were⁴¹ his arm, that dwelt⁴² under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

To whom⁴³ art thou⁴⁴ thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the⁴⁵ trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt⁴⁶ lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is⁴⁷ Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.