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And it came to pass in the eleventh[H259]year[H8141], in the third[H7992]month[H2320], in the first[H259] day of the month[H2320], that the word[H1697] of the LORD[H3068] came unto me, saying[H559],
2Son[H1121] of man[H120], speak[H559] unto Pharaoh[H6547]king[H4428] of Egypt[H4714], and to his multitude[H1995]; Whom art thou like[H1819] in thy greatness?[H1433]
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Behold, the Assyrian[H804] was a cedar[H730] in Lebanon[H3844] with fair[H3303]branches[H6057], and with a shadowing[H6751]shroud[H2793], and of an high[H1362]stature[H6967]; and his top[H6788] was among the thick boughs[H5688].
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The waters[H4325] made him great[H1431], the deep[H8415] set him up on high[H7311] with her rivers[H5104]running[H1980] round about[H5439] his plants[H4302], and sent out[H7971] her little rivers[H8585] unto all the trees[H6086] of the field[H7704].
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Therefore his height[H6967] was exalted[H1361] above all the trees[H6086] of the field[H7704], and his boughs[H5634] were multiplied[H7235], and his branches[H6288] became long[H748] because of the multitude[H7227] of waters[H4325], when he shot forth[H7971].
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All the fowls[H5775] of heaven[H8064] made their nests[H7077] in his boughs[H5589], and under his branches[H6288] did all the beasts[H2416] of the field[H7704] bring forth their young[H3205], and under his shadow[H6738]dwelt[H3427] all great[H7227]nations[H1471].
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Thus was he fair[H3302] in his greatness[H1433], in the length[H753] of his branches[H1808]: for his root[H8328] was by great[H7227]waters[H4325].
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The cedars[H730] in the garden[H1588] of God[H430] could not hide[H6004] him: the fir trees[H1265] were not like[H1819] his boughs[H5589], and the chesnut trees[H6196] were not like[H1819] his branches[H6288]; nor any tree[H6086] in the garden[H1588] of God[H430] was like[H1819] unto him in his beauty[H3308].
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I have made[H6213] him fair[H3303] by the multitude[H7230] of his branches[H1808]: so that all the trees[H6086] of Eden[H5731], that were in the garden[H1588] of God[H430], envied[H7065] him.
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Therefore thus saith[H559] the Lord[H136]GOD[H3069]; Because thou hast lifted up[H1361] thyself in height[H6967], and he hath shot up[H5414] his top[H6788] among the thick boughs[H5688], and his heart[H3824] is lifted up[H7311] in his height[H1363];
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I have therefore delivered[H5414] him into the hand[H3027] of the mighty one[H410] of the heathen[H1471]; he shall surely[H6213]deal[H6213] with him: I have driven him out[H1644] for his wickedness[H7562].
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And strangers[H2114], the terrible[H6184] of the nations[H1471], have cut him off[H3772], and have left[H5203] him: upon the mountains[H2022] and in all the valleys[H1516] his branches[H1808] are fallen[H5307], and his boughs[H6288] are broken[H7665] by all the rivers[H650] of the land[H776]; and all the people[H5971] of the earth[H776] are gone down[H3381] from his shadow[H6738], and have left[H5203] him.
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Upon his ruin[H4658] shall all the fowls[H5775] of the heaven[H8064]remain[H7931], and all the beasts[H2416] of the field[H7704] shall be upon his branches[H6288]:
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To the end that none of all the trees[H6086] by the waters[H4325]exalt[H1361] themselves for their height[H6967], neither shoot up[H5414] their top[H6788] among the thick boughs[H5688], neither their trees[H352] stand up[H5975] in their height[H1363], all that drink[H8354]water[H4325]: for they are all delivered[H5414] unto death[H4194], to the nether parts[H8482] of the earth[H776], in the midst[H8432] of the children[H1121] of men[H120], with them that go down[H3381] to the pit[H953].
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Thus saith[H559] the Lord[H136]GOD[H3069]; In the day[H3117] when he went down[H3381] to the grave[H7585] I caused a mourning[H56]: I covered[H3680] the deep[H8415] for him, and I restrained[H4513] the floods[H5104] thereof, and the great[H7227]waters[H4325] were stayed[H3607]: and I caused Lebanon[H3844] to mourn[H6937] for him, and all the trees[H6086] of the field[H7704]fainted[H5969] for him.
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I made the nations[H1471] to shake[H7493] at the sound[H6963] of his fall[H4658], when I cast him down[H3381] to hell[H7585] with them that descend[H3381] into the pit[H953]: and all the trees[H6086] of Eden[H5731], the choice[H4005] and best[H2896] of Lebanon[H3844], all that drink[H8354]water[H4325], shall be comforted[H5162] in the nether parts[H8482] of the earth[H776].
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They also went down[H3381] into hell[H7585] with him unto them that be slain[H2491] with the sword[H2719]; and they that were his arm[H2220], that dwelt[H3427] under his shadow[H6738] in the midst[H8432] of the heathen[H1471].
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To whom art thou thus like[H1819] in glory[H3519] and in greatness[H1433] among the trees[H6086] of Eden?[H5731] yet shalt thou be brought down[H3381] with the trees[H6086] of Eden[H5731] unto the nether parts[H8482] of the earth[H776]: thou shalt lie[H7901] in the midst[H8432] of the uncircumcised[H6189] with them that be slain[H2491] by the sword[H2719]. This is Pharaoh[H6547] and all his multitude[H1995], saith[H5002] the Lord[H136]GOD[H3069].