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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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/ezekiel/31.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Egypt Compared to Fallen Assyria</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>On June 21,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> during the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, give this message to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all his hordes:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1">“To whom would you compare your greatness?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You are like mighty Assyria,</p><p class="line2">which was once like a cedar of Lebanon,</p><p class="line1">with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shade</p><p class="line2">and with its top high among the clouds.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Deep springs watered it</p><p class="line2">and helped it to grow tall and luxuriant.</p><p class="line1">The water flowed around it like a river,</p><p class="line2">streaming to all the trees nearby.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This great tree towered high,</p><p class="line2">higher than all the other trees around it.</p><p class="line1">It prospered and grew long thick branches</p><p class="line2">because of all the water at its roots.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The birds nested in its branches,</p><p class="line2">and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth.</p><p class="line1">All the great nations of the world</p><p class="line2">lived in its shadow.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It was strong and beautiful,</p><p class="line2">with wide-spreading branches,</p><p class="line1">for its roots went deep</p><p class="line2">into abundant water.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>No other cedar in the garden of God</p><p class="line2">could rival it.</p><p class="line1">No cypress had branches to equal it;</p><p class="line2">no plane tree had boughs to compare.</p><p class="line1">No tree in the garden of God</p><p class="line2">came close to it in beauty.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Because I made this tree so beautiful,</p><p class="line2">and gave it such magnificent foliage,</p><p class="line1">it was the envy of all the other trees of Eden,</p><p class="line2">the garden of God.</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because Egypt<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> became proud and arrogant, and because it set itself so high above the others, with its top reaching to the clouds, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will hand it over to a mighty nation that will destroy it as its wickedness deserves. I have already discarded it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A foreign army—the terror of the nations—has cut it down and left it fallen on the ground. Its branches are scattered across the mountains and valleys and ravines of the land. All those who lived in its shadow have gone away and left it lying there.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“The birds roost on its fallen trunk,</p><p class="line2">and the wild animals lie among its branches.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let the tree of no other nation</p><p class="line2">proudly exult in its own prosperity,</p><p class="line1">though it be higher than the clouds</p><p class="line2">and it be watered from the depths.</p><p class="line1">For all are doomed to die,</p><p class="line2">to go down to the depths of the earth.</p><p class="line1">They will land in the pit</p><p class="line2">along with everyone else on earth.</p><p class="b"/><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When Assyria went down to the grave,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> I made the deep springs mourn. I stopped its rivers and dried up its abundant water. I clothed Lebanon in black and caused the trees of the field to wilt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I made the nations shake with fear at the sound of its fall, for I sent it down to the grave with all the others who descend to the pit. And all the other proud trees of Eden, the most beautiful and the best of Lebanon, the ones whose roots went deep into the water, took comfort to find it there with them in the depths of the earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Its allies, too, were all destroyed and had passed away. They had gone down to the grave—all those nations that had lived in its shade.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/31-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“O Egypt, to which of the trees of Eden will you compare your strength and glory? You, too, will be brought down to the depths with all these other nations. You will lie there among the outcasts<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> who have died by the sword. This will be the fate of Pharaoh and all his hordes. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">31:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">On the first day of the third month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on June 21, 587 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><span class="ft">; also see note on 1:1.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">31:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">you.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">31:15 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">to Sheol;</span><span class="ft"> also in 31:16, 17.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">31:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">among the uncircumcised.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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