1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the third month, the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3 Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.
4 The waters nourished him, the deep set him up on high, the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.
5 Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the country: and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated because of many waters.
6 And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.
7 And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters.
8 The cedars in the paradise of God wars not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.
9 For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him.
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God Because he was exalted in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up in his height:
11 I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his wickedness.
12 And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.
13 All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the field were among his branches.
14 For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick branches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand up in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down into the pit.
15 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all the trees of the field trembled.
16 I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth.
17 For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are slain by the sword: and the arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
18 To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
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Ezekiel 31 describes the fall of Egypt's Pharaoh and its greatness compared to the majesty of a giant tree that was cut and fell. The topics covered include God's sovereignty over nations and the danger of arrogance and pride.
Proverbs 16:18: "Superb precedes ruin, and the haughtiness of the Spirit precedes the fall." This verse highlights the connection between arrogance and fall, a theme present in Ezekiel 31.
Ezekiel 28:2: "Son of man, say to the prince of shot, Say the Lord God, For thy heart, he has risen and said, I am a God, I seat myself on the throne of God, in the hearts of the seas , Since you are a man and not God; and yet you have put your heart as if it were the heart of God. " This verse shows another situation in which arrogance leads to fall.
Daniel 4:30-32: "The king said, and said, This is not the great Babylon that I edited to the royal house, with the strength of my power and to the glory of my majesty? , when a voice from heaven fell: it is said to be, O king Nebuchadnezzar: the kingdom has passed from you. And you will be taken from men, and your abode will be with the animals of the countryside; oxen, and they will pass upon you seven times, until you know that the Most High has mastery over the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom it wants. " This verse shows the fall of Nebuchadnezzar because of its arrogance and pride.
Isaiah 14:13-14: "And you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, above the stars of God I will exalt my throne, and on the hill of the congregation I will sit from the band on the north. Clouds, and I will be similar to the Most High. " This verse shows the fall of Lucifer because of his arrogance and desire to be like God.
Obadiah 1:3-4: "Your superb has deceived you, and the arrogance of your heart, which dwells in the cracks of the rocks, in your high abode; who says in your heart: Who will knock me down on land? Eagle, and put your home among the stars, I will knock you down, says the Lord. " This verse shows that arrogance can lead to fall, no matter how high a person may seem to be.
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