31 At the end of June in the eleventh year since King Yoyakin (Jehoiachin) had been taken captive,[fn] Yahweh gave me a message: 2 “Humanity’s child, ask the Egyptian king Far-oh (Pharaoh) and his multitudes around him, ‘Who else is as powerful as you and your people? 3 Listen, Assyria was like a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, giving shade to the forest—extremely tall and the branches formed its treetop. 4 A deep water supply made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around its area, because their channels stretched out to all the trees in the countryside. 5 It grew taller than any of the other trees in the countryside, and its branches grew long and thick because of having plenty of water in its shoots. 6 Every kind of bird nested in its branches, while every living thing in the countryside gave birth to its young under the foliage of that tree. All the powerful nations lived under its shade. 7 It was beautiful in its greatness and due to the length of its branches, because its roots had access to many waters. 8 Cedar trees in God’s garden couldn’t equal it. None of the cypress trees matched its branches, nor could its branches be equalled by the plane tree. There was no other tree in God’s garden could compare to its beauty.[ref] 9 I made it beautiful with its many branches and all the trees in God’s garden in Eden envied it.

10 Therefore the master Yahweh says this: Because it was so tall, and it set its treetop between its branches, and because it grew proud of its height, 11 I handed it over to a powerful nation to deal with it according to what its wickedness deserves. I’ve thrown it out 12 and foreigners who were the terror of all the nations cut it off and left it to die. Its branches fell onto the mountains and all the valleys, and lay broken in all the ravines of the land. Then all the nations on earth came out from under its shade and went away from it. 13 All the various kinds of birds rested on the trunk of the fallen tree, and every kind of animal in the countryside came to its branches. 14 That happened so that no other trees that grow by the waters will raise up their foliage to the height of the tallest trees, and that no other trees that grow beside the waters will reach up to that height. All of them have been assigned to death, to the earth below, among humanity’s children, with those that go down to the pit.

15 The master Yahweh says this: On the day when the cedar went down to the place of the dead, I brought mourning to the earth. I covered the deep waters over it, and I held back the oceans. I held back the great waters, and I brought mourning to Lebanon for it. So all the trees in the countryside mourned because of it. 16 I brought shuddering to the nations at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to the place of the dead, along with those who went down into the pit. So I comforted all the trees from Eden in the lowest parts of the earth. Those had been the choicest and best trees of Lebanon—the trees that drank the waters. 17 They also went down with the big tree to the place of the dead, to the ones who had been killed by the sword. Those were its strong arm—those nations who had lived in its shade.

18 Egypt, which of the trees in Eden was your equal in glory and greatness, because you’ll be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest parts of the earth among the uncircumcised? You’ll live there with those who were killed by the sword.’

That is the fate of Far-oh (Pharaoh) and all of his multitudes. That is the master Yahweh’s declaration.”