Eze 31 | EngLXX | STEP | And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

‏ Ezekiel 31

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the firstday of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude; To whom have you comparedyourself in your haughtiness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Libanus, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature:his top reached to the midst of the clouds. 4 The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round abouthis plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field. 5 Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spreadfar by the help of much water. 6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all thewild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations lived under his shadow. 7 And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches: for his rootswere amidst much water. 8 And such cypressesas this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there wereno firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty, 9 because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God's paradise of delight enviedhim. 10 Therefore thus says the Lord; Because you are grown great, and have set your top in themidst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted; 11 therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wroughthis destruction. 12 And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down uponthe mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of theland; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low. 13 All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts ofthe field came upon his boughs: 14 in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves by reason of theirsize: whereas they set their top in the midst of the clouds, yet they continued not in their high statein their place, all that drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the midstof the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. 15 Thus says the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned forhim: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, allthe trees of the field fainted for him. 16 At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with themthat go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice ofplants of Libanus, all that drink water. 17 For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed,even they that lived under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life. 18 To whom are you compared? descend, and be you debased with the trees of paradise to thedepth of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword.Thus shall Pharao be, and the multitude of his host, says the Lord God.