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Ezekiel 31:1-3
Contemporary English Version

Egypt's King Will Be Chopped Down like a Cedar Tree

31 Eleven years after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the Lord spoke to me on the first day of the third month.[a] He said:

2 Ezekiel, son of man, tell the king of Egypt and his people that I am saying:

You are more powerful
than anyone on earth.
    Now listen to this.
3 There was once a cedar tree
    in Lebanon
with large, strong branches
    reaching to the sky.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 31.1 Eleven years … third month: Probably May of 587 b.c.
  2. 31.3 sky: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 3.
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