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On June 21, during the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this
message came to me from the Lord: “Son of man, give this message to
Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all his hordes:
“To whom would you compare your greatness?
You are like mighty Assyria,
which was once like a cedar of Lebanon,
with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shade
and with its top high among the clouds.
Deep springs watered it
and helped it to grow tall and luxuriant.
The water flowed around it like a river,
streaming to all the trees nearby.
This great tree towered high,
higher than all the other trees around it.
It prospered and grew long thick branches
because of all the water at its roots.
The birds nested in its branches,
and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth.
All the great nations of the world
lived in its shadow.
It was strong and beautiful,
with wide-spreading branches,
for its roots went deep
into abundant water.
No other cedar in the garden of God
could rival it.
No cypress had branches to equal it;
no plane tree had boughs to compare.
No tree in the garden of God
came close to it in beauty.
Because I made this tree so beautiful,
and gave it such magnificent foliage,
it was the envy of all the other trees of Eden,
the garden of God.
“Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because Egypt be
came proud and arrogant, and because it set itself so high above the others,
with its top reaching to the clouds, I will hand it over to a mighty nation
that will destroy it as its wickedness deserves. I have already discarded it. A
foreign army—the terror of the nations—has cut it down and left it fallen
