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Ezekiel 31 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Pharaoh Warned of Assyria's Fate

(cf. Eze 17:22–24 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:1 - In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:2 - "Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: "Whom are you like in your greatness?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:3 - Behold, I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:4 - The waters nourished it, the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow round the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the forest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:5 - So it towered high above all the trees of the forest; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6 - All the birds of the air made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:7 - It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:8 - The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:9 - I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:10 - "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:11 - I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:12 - Foreigners, the most terrible of the nations, will cut it down and leave it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches will fall, and its boughs will lie broken in all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth will go from its shadow and leave it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:13 - Upon its ruin will dwell all the birds of the air, and upon its branches will be all the beasts of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:14 - All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height; for they are all given over to death, to the nether world among mortal men, with those who go down to the Pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:15 - "Thus says the Lord GOD: When it goes down to Sheol I will make the deep mourn for it, and restrain its rivers, and many waters shall be stopped; I will clothe Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field shall faint because of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - I will make the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, will be comforted in the nether world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17 - They also shall go down to Sheol with it, to those who are slain by the sword; yea, those who dwelt under its shadow among the nations shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:18 - Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether world; you shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. "This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD."
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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