Ezekiel 31:1-3

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Pharaoh Warned of Assyria’s Fate

31 In the eleventh year [after King Jehoiachin was taken captive to Babylon], in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes,

‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
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‘Behold (listen carefully), Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and with forest shade,
And of high stature,
With its top among the clouds.

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