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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 31 BSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/31.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//ezekiel/31-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BSB</a> > Ezekiel 31</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/30.htm" title="Ezekiel 30">◄</a> Ezekiel 31 <a href="../ezekiel/32.htm" title="Ezekiel 32">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/ezekiel/31.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Egypt Will Fall like Assyria<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: <p class="indent1stline">‘Who can be compared <p class="indent2"> to your greatness? <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, <p class="indent2"> with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. <p class="indent1"> It towered on high; <p class="indent2"> its top was among the clouds. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The waters made it grow; <p class="indent2"> the deep springs made it tall, <p class="indent1"> directing their streams all around its base <p class="indent2"> and sending their channels to all the trees of the field. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore it towered higher <p class="indent2"> than all the trees of the field. <p class="indent1"> Its branches multiplied, <p class="indent2"> and its boughs grew long <p class="indent1"> as it spread them out <p class="indent2"> because of the abundant waters. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>All the birds of the air <p class="indent2"> nested in its branches, <p class="indent1"> and all the beasts of the field <p class="indent2"> gave birth beneath its boughs; <p class="indent1"> all the great nations <p class="indent2"> lived in its shade. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It was beautiful in its greatness, <p class="indent2"> in the length of its limbs, <p class="indent1"> for its roots extended <p class="indent2"> to abundant waters. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The cedars in the garden of God <p class="indent2"> could not rival it; <p class="indent1"> the cypresses<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> could not compare with its branches, <p class="indent2"> nor the plane trees<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> match its boughs. <p class="indent1"> No tree in the garden of God <p class="indent2"> could compare with its beauty. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I made it beautiful with its many branches, <p class="indent2"> the envy of all the trees of Eden, <p class="indent2"> which were in the garden of God.’ <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> in height and set its top among the clouds,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> and it grew proud on account of its height, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>All the birds of the air nested on its fallen trunk, and all the beasts of the field lived among its boughs. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’ <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. <p class="reg"> Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>pines</i> or <i>junipers</i> or <i>firs</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Possibly <i>chestnut</i> or <i>juniper</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Hebrew <i>you became great</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>through the thick boughs</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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