Ezekiel 31

1In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,Cross-references: Jer 52:5 · Ezek 1:2 · Ezek 30:20

2“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?Cross-references: Isa 14:13 · Jer 1:5 · Jer 1:17 · Ezek 29:19 · Ezek 30:10 · Ezek 31:18 · +2 more

3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.Cross-references: Judg 9:15 · Isa 10:33 · Isa 37:24 · Ezek 17:3 · Ezek 17:22 · Ezek 31:6 · +7 more

4The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation. It sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.Cross-references: Prov 14:28 · Jer 51:36 · Ezek 17:5 · Ezek 17:8 · Rev 17:1 · Rev 17:15

5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out.Cross-references: Ps 1:3 · Ps 37:35 · Isa 10:8 · Isa 36:4 · Isa 36:18 · Isa 37:11 · +2 more

6All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow.Cross-references: Ezek 17:23 · Dan 4:12 · Dan 4:21 · Matt 13:32

7Thus it was beautiful 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 cypress trees were not like its branches. The pine trees were not like its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.Cross-references: Gen 2:8 · Gen 13:10 · Ps 37:35 · Ps 80:10 · Isa 10:7 · Isa 36:4 · +5 more

9I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’Cross-references: Gen 2:8 · Gen 13:10 · Gen 26:14 · Gen 37:11 · Ex 9:16 · Judg 9:8 · +19 more

10“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up in his height,Cross-references: 2Chr 25:19 · 2Chr 32:25 · Job 11:11 · Prov 16:18 · Prov 18:12 · Isa 10:12 · +8 more

11I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.Cross-references: Lev 18:24 · Lev 20:22 · Deut 18:12 · Judg 1:7 · Judg 16:23 · Jer 25:9 · +10 more

12Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow and have left him.Cross-references: Isa 34:5 · Ezek 28:7 · Ezek 30:11 · Ezek 32:4 · Ezek 32:12 · Ezek 35:5 · +7 more

13All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches,Cross-references: Isa 18:6 · Ezek 29:5 · Ezek 32:4 · Rev 19:17

14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’Cross-references: Deut 13:11 · Deut 21:21 · Neh 13:18 · Ps 63:9 · Ps 82:7 · Ezek 26:20 · +7 more

15“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.Cross-references: Nah 2:8 · Mal 3:4 · Rev 18:9 · Rev 18:18

16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.Cross-references: Isa 14:8 · Isa 14:15 · Ezek 14:22 · Ezek 26:10 · Ezek 26:15 · Ezek 27:28 · +10 more

17They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.Cross-references: Neh 3:17 · Ps 9:17 · Isa 14:9 · Lam 4:20 · Ezek 30:6 · Ezek 30:21 · +5 more

18“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”Cross-references: 1Sam 17:26 · 1Sam 17:36 · 2Sam 1:20 · 2Chr 28:22 · Ps 52:7 · Jer 9:25 · +11 more