Book of Ezekiel, Chapter 31
Ezekiel 31 NASB - New American Standard BibleChapter 31 of Ezekiel—New American Standard Bible (NASB)
- ¶ In the 1eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,
- “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his 2hordes,
¶ ‘Whom are you like in your greatness? - ‘Behold, Assyria was a 3cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And [a]4very high,
And its top was among the [b]clouds. - ‘The 5waters made it grow, the [c]deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually [d]extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field. - ‘Therefore 6its height was loftier than all the trees of the field
And its boughs became many and its branches long
Because of 7many waters [e]as it spread them out. - ‘All the 8birds of the heavens nested in its boughs,
And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,
And all great nations lived under its shade. - ‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its [f]roots extended to many waters. - ‘The 9cedars in 10God’s garden [g]could not match it;
The [h]cypresses [i]could not compare with its boughs,
And the plane trees [j]could not match its branches.
No tree in 11God’s garden [k]could compare with it in its beauty. - ‘I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches,
And all the trees of 12Eden, which were in the 13garden of God, were jealous of it. - ¶ ‘Therefore thus says the Lord [l]GOD, “Because [m]it is high in stature and has set its top among the [n]clouds, and its 14heart is haughty in its loftiness,
- therefore I will give it into the hand of a [o]15despot of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have 16driven it away.
- 17Alien 18tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the 19mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have 20gone down from its shade and left it.
- On its ruin all the 21birds of the heavens will dwell, and all the beasts of the field will be on its fallen branches
- so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, nor set their top among the [p]clouds, nor their [q]well-watered mighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the 22earth beneath, among the sons of men, with those who go down to the pit.”
- ¶ ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I 23caused lamentations; I closed the [r]deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon [s]mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.
- I made the nations 24quake at the sound of its fall when I made it 25go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [t]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of 26Lebanon, were 27comforted in the earth beneath.
- They also 28went down with it to Sheol to those who were 29slain by the sword; and those who were its [u]strength lived 30under its shade among the nations.
- ¶ “To which among the trees of Eden are you thus [v]equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the 31uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. 32So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord GOD.”
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Lit high of stature
- ^ So Gr; M.T. thick boughs
- ^ I.e. subterranean waters
- ^ Lit was going
- ^ Lit in its sending forth
- ^ Lit root was
- ^ Lit did
- ^ Or Phoenician junipers
- ^ Lit did
- ^ Lit were not like
- ^ Lit did
- ^ Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
- ^ Lit you are
- ^ Or thick boughs
- ^ Or mighty one
- ^ Or thick boughs
- ^ Lit drinkers of water
- ^ I.e. subterranean waters
- ^ Lit be darkened
- ^ Lit drinkers of water
- ^ Lit arm
- ^ Lit like
REFERENCES
- ^ Je 52:5, 6; Eze 30:20; 32:1
- ^ Eze 29:19; 30:10; Na 3:9
- ^ Is 10:33, 34; Eze 17:3, 4, 22; 31:16; Da 4:10, 20-23
- ^ Is 10:33; Eze 31:5, 10
- ^ Eze 17:5, 8; Re 17:1, 15
- ^ Da 4:11
- ^ Ps 1:3; Eze 17:5
- ^ Eze 17:23; 31:13; Da 4:12, 21; Mt 13:32
- ^ Ps 80:10; Eze 31:3
- ^ Ge 2:8, 9; 13:10; Is 51:3; Eze 28:13; 31:16, 18
- ^ Ge 2:8, 9; 13:10; Is 51:3; Eze 28:13; 31:16, 18
- ^ Ge 2:8, 9; 13:10; Is 51:3; Eze 28:13; 31:16, 18
- ^ Ge 2:8, 9; 13:10; Is 51:3; Eze 28:13; 31:16, 18
- ^ 2Ch 32:25; Is 10:12; 14:13, 14; Eze 28:17; Da 5:20
- ^ Eze 30:10, 11; 32:11, 12; Da 5:18, 19
- ^ De 18:12; Na 3:18
- ^ Eze 7:21; 28:7; 30:12; Hab 1:6
- ^ Eze 28:7; 30:11; 32:12
- ^ Eze 32:5; 35:8
- ^ Eze 31:17; Da 4:14; Na 3:17, 18
- ^ Is 18:6; Eze 29:5; 31:6; 32:4
- ^ Nu 16:30, 33; Ps 63:9; Eze 26:20; 31:18; 32:24; Am 9:2; Jon 2:2, 6; Eph 4:9
- ^ Eze 32:7; Na 2:10
- ^ Eze 26:15; 27:28; Hg 2:7
- ^ Is 14:15; Eze 32:18
- ^ Is 14:8; Hab 2:17
- ^ Eze 14:22, 23; 32:31
- ^ Ps 9:17
- ^ Eze 32:20f
- ^ Eze 31:3, 6; Da 4:12
- ^ Je 9:25, 26; Eze 28:10; 32:19, 21
- ^ Ps 52:7; Mt 13:19
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