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Like Assyria, Pharaoh Too Will Be Cut Down

31 In the eleventh year,[a] in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me.

Son of man, say this to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his horde.

To whom can you be compared in your greatness?

Consider Assyria. It was a cedar in Lebanon. It had beautiful branches, which gave shade to the woodland. It was very tall, and its top reached to the clouds.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:1 In 587 bc, during the siege of Jerusalem
  2. Ezekiel 31:3 Or was a canopy for the forest