1And it came to pass in the eleventh year , in the third month , in the first day of the month , that the word of Jehovah came unto me , saying , 2Son of man , say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt , and to his multitude : Whom art thou like in thy greatness ? 3Behold , the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches , and with a forest-like shade , and of high stature ; and its top was among the thick boughs . 4The waters nourished it , the deep made it to grow : the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation ; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field . 5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field ; and its boughs were multiplied , and its branches became long by reason of many waters , when it shot them forth . 6All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs ; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young ; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations . 7Thus was it fair in its greatness , in the length of its branches ; for its root was by many waters . 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it ; the fir-trees were not like its boughs , and the plane-trees were not as its branches ; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty . 9I made it fair by the multitude of its branches , so that all the trees of Eden , that were in the garden of God, envied it .
The Fall of Assyria
10Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah : Because thou art exalted in stature , and he hath set his top among the thick boughs , and his heart is lifted up in his height ; 11I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations ; he shall surely deal with him ; I have driven him out for his wickedness . 12And strangers , the terrible of the nations , have cut him off , and have left him : upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen , and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow , and have left him . 13Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell , and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches ; 14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature , neither set their top among the thick boughs , nor that their mighty ones stand up in their height , even all that drink water : for they are all delivered unto death , to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men , with them that go down to the pit. 15Thus saith the Lord Jehovah : In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning : I covered the deep for him , and I restrained the rivers thereof ; and the great waters were stayed ; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him , and all the trees of the field fainted for him . 16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall , when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit ; and all the trees of Eden , the choice and best of Lebanon , all that drink water , were comforted in the nether parts of the earth. 17They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword ; yea , they that were his arm , that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations .
The Aftermath of Assyria's Fall
18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden ? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised , with them that are slain by the sword . This is Pharaoh and all his multitude , saith the Lord Jehovah .