Moff EZE Chapter 31

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31 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, this word from the Eternal came to me: 2 “Son of man, say this to the Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his host:

Who is like you in size?

You were a stately cedar in Lebanon,

with fair branches, very tall,

its top among the clouds.

Waters nourished it,

deep waters made it grow,

pouring streams round the plantation,

running rills through all the soil.

So it rose in height,

over all towering trees,

with many a bough,

with branches stretching out--

thanks to the wealth of water.

Within its boughs

all birds of the air nested;

under its branches

all animals brought forth their young;

yes, under its shadow

all the great nations lived.

It was fair in its great size,

with its long branches--

so rooted was it

beside ample water.

The very cedars in God’s garden could not rival it;

no cypress had boughs like it,

no plane had branches like it;

not a tree in God’s own garden

was like it for beauty,

for number of branches;

the trees of Eden, in God’s garden,

all envied it.

10 Therefore the Lord the Eternal declares: Because it towered so high and raised its top to the clouds, priding itself on its height, 11 I handed it over to the great power among the nations; 12 foreigners, the most ruthless of races, cut it down and flung it on the hills, till its branches fell into every valley, and its broken boughs lay in all the ravines of the land; all races of the world forsook its shadow in dismay; 13 the birds all perched upon its ruined trunk, and the animals all lay upon its branches. 14 And this was in order that hereafter no trees growing beside water should exalt themselves in size, raising their tops to the clouds, that no trees fed by water should display their height; all of them are consigned to death, to the nether regions, to mix with common men, with those who go down to the pit below.”

15 The Lord the Eternal proclaims: “On the day he went down below, I made the deep waters mourn for him, I checked the streams till the broad waters were stayed; I made Lebanon mourn for him, and all the trees drooped for him; 16 I shook the nations with the crash of his downfall, when I threw him into the underworld to mix with those who go down to the pit below, while in the nether regions the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best trees of Lebanon, nourished by water, were all consoled by his fate. 17 The nations shall also go down with him into the underworld, to join those whom the sword has slain, and his supporters, who lived under his shadow among the nations, shall also perish. 18 What tree of Eden rivals you in splendour and in size? Yet you must go down like the trees of Eden into the nether regions, and lie there in a shameful death, among men whom the sword has slain. So much for the Pharaoh and for all his host, says the Lord the Eternal.”

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