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Ezekiel 31
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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
 (31:1) "And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ...."
When did it come to pass? On the eleventh year, the third month, etc. of what?
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| 31:2
Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom
art thou like in thy greatness?
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| 31:3
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a
shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick
boughs. |
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The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers
running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the
trees of the field. |
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Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his
boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the
multitude of waters, when he shot forth. |
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| 31:6
All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under
his shadow dwelt all great nations. |
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| 31:7
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his
root was by great waters. |
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| 31:8
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not
like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any
tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty. |
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I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the
trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him. |
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in
height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is
lifted up in his height; |
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I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the
heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his
wickedness. |
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| 31:12
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have
left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen,
and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people
of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him. |
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| 31:13
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts
of the field shall be upon his branches: |
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| 31:14
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for
their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all
delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the
children of men, with them that go down to the pit. |
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| 31:15
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I
caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods
thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for
him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. |
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| 31:16
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down
to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the
choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the
nether parts of the earth. |
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| 31:17
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the
sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst
of the heathen. |
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| 31:18
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of
Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether
parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with
them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,
saith the Lord GOD.
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 (31:18) "Thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with
them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD."
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