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Downfall of Egypt and Assyria
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|Ezequiel 31:1| In the eleventh year, a in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
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|Ezequiel 31:2| “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes:Who are you like in your greatness?
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|Ezequiel 31:3|Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, b with beautiful branches and shady foliage and of lofty height. Its top was among the clouds. 1
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|Ezequiel 31:4|The waters caused it to grow; the underground springs made it tall, directing their rivers all around the place where the tree was planted and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.
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|Ezequiel 31:5|Therefore the cedar became greater in height than all the trees of the field. c Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the plentiful water. d
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|Ezequiel 31:6|All the birds of the sky nested in its branches, e and all the animals of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
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|Ezequiel 31:7|It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant water.
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|Ezequiel 31:8|The cedars in God’s garden could not rival it; f the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches, nor could the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with it in beauty.
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|Ezequiel 31:9|I made it beautiful with its many limbs, and all the trees of Eden, which were in God’s garden, envied it.
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|Ezequiel 31:10| “Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Since it 2 became great in height and set its top among the clouds, 3 and it 4 grew proud g on account of its height,
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