Ezekiel 31:1-3

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The Lofty Cedar

31 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²Mortal, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes:

Whom are you like in your greatness?
³    Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon,
with fair branches and forest shade,
    and of great height,
    its top among the clouds.^[a]

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Ezekiel 31:3 Gk: Heb thick boughs

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