Egypt Cut Down Like a Great Tree

31 Now it came to pass in the aeleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude:

b‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

3 cIndeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,

With fine branches that shaded the forest,

And of high stature;

And its top was among the thick boughs.

4 dThe waters made it grow;

Underground waters gave it height,

With their rivers running around the place where it was planted,

And sent out 1rivulets to all the trees of the field.

5 ‘Therefore eits height was exalted above all the trees of the field;

Its boughs were multiplied,

And its branches became long because of the abundance of water,

As it sent them out.

6 All the fbirds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs;

Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young;

And in its shadow all great nations 2made their home.

7 ‘Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches,

Because its roots reached to abundant waters.

8 The cedars in the ggarden of God could not hide it;

The fir trees were not like its boughs,

And the 3chestnut trees were not like its branches;

No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

9 I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches,

So that all the trees of Eden envied it,

That were in the garden of God.’

10 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have increased in height, and it set its top among the thick boughs, and hits heart was 4lifted up in its height, 11 therefore I will deliver it into the hand of the imighty one of the nations, and he shall surely deal with it; I have driven it out for its wickedness. 12 And aliens, jthe most terrible of the nations, have cut it down and left it; its branches have fallen kon the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs lie lbroken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from under its shadow and left it.

13 ‘On mits ruin will remain all the birds of the heavens,

And all the beasts of the field will come to its branches—

14 ‘So that no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves for their height, nor set their tops among the thick boughs, that no tree which drinks water may ever be high enough to reach up to them.

‘For nthey have all been delivered to death,

oTo the depths of the earth,

Among the children of men who go down to the Pit.’

15 “Thus says the Lord God: ‘In the day when it pwent down to 5hell, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it. I restrained its rivers, and the great waters were held back. I caused Lebanon to 6mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it. 16 I made the nations qshake at the sound of its fall, when I rcast it down to 7hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and sall the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, twere comforted in the depths of the earth. 17 They also went down to hell with it, with those slain by the sword; and those who were its strong arm udwelt in its shadows among the nations.

18 v‘To which of the trees in Eden will you then be likened in glory and greatness? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the depths of the earth; wyou shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord God.”

Lamentation for Pharaoh and Egypt

32 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the atwelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, btake up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:

c‘You are like a young lion among the nations,

And dyou are like a monster in the seas,

eBursting forth in your rivers,

Troubling the waters with your feet,

And ffouling their rivers.’

3 “Thus says the Lord God:

‘I will therefore gspread My net over you with a company of many people,

And they will draw you up in My net.

4 Then hI will leave you on the land;

I will cast you out on the open fields,

iAnd cause to 1settle on you all the birds of the heavens.

And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth.

5 I will lay your flesh jon the mountains,

And fill the valleys with your carcass.

6 ‘I will also water the land with the flow of your blood,

Even to the mountains;

And the riverbeds will be full of you.

7 When I put out your light,

kI will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark;

I will cover the sun with a cloud,

And the moon shall not give her light.

8 All the 2bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you,

And bring darkness upon your land,’

Says the Lord God.

9 ‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. 10 Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and lthey shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.’

11 m“For thus says the Lord God: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. 12 ‘By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them nthe most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall.

o“They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt,

And all its multitude shall be destroyed.

13 Also I will destroy all its animals

From beside its great waters;

pThe foot of man shall muddy them no more,

Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them.

14 Then I will make their waters 3clear,

And make their rivers run like oil,’

Says the Lord God.

15 ‘When I make the land of Egypt desolate,

And the country is destitute of all that once filled it,

When I strike all who dwell in it,

qThen they shall know that I am the Lord.

16 ‘This is the rlamentation

With which they shall lament her;

The daughters of the nations shall lament her;

They shall lament for her, for Egypt,

And for all her multitude,’

Says the Lord God.”

Egypt and Others Consigned to the Pit

17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, sthat the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

18 “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt,

And tcast them down to the depths of the earth,

Her and the daughters of the famous nations,

With those who go down to the Pit:

19 ‘Whom udo you surpass in beauty?

vGo down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’

20 “They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword;

She is delivered to the sword,

wDrawing her and all her multitudes.

21 xThe strong among the mighty

Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell

With those who help him:

‘They have ygone down,

They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

22 “Assyria zis there, and all her company,

With their graves all around her,

All of them slain, fallen by the sword.

23 aHer graves are set in the recesses of the Pit,

And her company is all around her grave,

All of them slain, fallen by the sword,

Who bcaused terror in the land of the living.

24 “There is cElam and all her multitude,

All around her grave,

All of them slain, fallen by the sword,

Who have dgone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,

eWho caused their terror in the land of the living;

Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

25 They have set her fbed in the midst of the slain,

With all her multitude,

With her graves all around it,

All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword;

Though their terror was caused

In the land of the living,

Yet they bear their shame

With those who go down to the Pit;

It was put in the midst of the slain.

26 “There are gMeshech and Tubal and all their multitudes,

With all their graves around it,

All of them huncircumcised, slain by the sword,

Though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

27 iThey do not lie with the mighty

Who are fallen of the uncircumcised,

Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war;

They have laid their swords under their heads,

But their iniquities will be on their bones,

Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

28 Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised,

And lie with those slain by the sword.

29 “There is jEdom,

Her kings and all her princes,

Who despite their might

Are laid beside those slain by the sword;

They shall lie with the uncircumcised,

And with those who go down to the Pit.

30 kThere are the princes of the north,

All of them, and all the lSidonians,

Who have gone down with the slain

In shame at the terror which they caused by their might;

They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword,

And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

31 “Pharaoh will see them

And be mcomforted over all his multitude,

Pharaoh and all his army,

Slain by the sword,”

Says the Lord God.

32 “For I have caused My terror in the land of the living;

And he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised

With those slain by the sword,

Pharaoh and all his multitude,”

Says the Lord God.