Ezekiel · Unlocked Literal Bible
Ezekiel 31 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 Then it came about in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his multitudes around him, 'In your greatness, who are you like?
2 “Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
3 Behold! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, giving shade to the forest, and the tallest in height, and the branches formed its treetop.
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
4 Many waters made it tall; the deep waters made it huge. Rivers flowed all around its area, for their channels stretched out to all the trees in the field.
4 The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation. It sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
5 Its great height was more than any of the other trees in the field, and its branches became very many; its branches grew long because of many waters as they grew.
5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out.
6 Every bird of the heavens nested in its branches, while every living thing of the field gave birth to its young under its foliage. All of the many nations lived under its shade.
6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow.
7 For it was beautiful in its greatness and the length of its branches, for its roots were in many waters.
7 Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
8 Cedars in the garden of God could not equal it. None among the cypress trees matched its branches, and the plane tree could not equal its boughs. There was no other tree in the garden of God that was like it in its beauty.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its branches. The pine trees were not like its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
9 I made it beautiful with its many branches and all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it.
9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’
10 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: Because it was tall in height, and it set its treetop between its branches, it lifted up its heart because of its height.
10 “Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up in his height,
11 I have given it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations, to deal with it according to what its wickedness deserves. I have thrown it out.
11 I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.
12 Foreigners who were the terror of all the nations cut it off and left it to die. Its branches fell on the mountains and all the valleys, and its boughs lay broken in all the ravines of the land. Then all the nations on earth came out from under its shade and they went away from it.
12 Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow and have left him.
13 All the birds of the sky rested on the trunk of the fallen tree, and every animal of the field came to its branches.
13 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches,
14 This happened so that no other trees that grow by the waters will lift up their foliage to the height of the tallest trees, and that no other trees that grow beside the waters will reach up to that height. All of them have been assigned to death, to the earth below, among the children of humanity, with those that go down to the pit.
14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’
15 The Lord Yahweh says this: On the day when the cedar went down to Sheol I brought mourning to the earth. I covered the deep waters over it, and I held back the ocean waters. I kept back the great waters, and I brought mourning to Lebanon for him. So all the trees of the field mourned because of it.
15 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
16 I brought shuddering to the nations at the sound of its downfall, when I threw it down to Sheol with those who went down into the pit. So I comforted all the trees of Eden in the lowest parts of the earth. These had been the choicest and best trees of Lebanon; the trees that drank the waters.
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.
17 For they also went down with it to Sheol, to the ones who had been killed by the sword. These were its strong arm, those nations who had lived in its shade.
17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.
18 Which of the trees in Eden was your equal in glory and greatness? For you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest parts of the earth among the uncircumcised; you will live with those who were killed by the sword.' This is Pharaoh and all of his multitudes—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.”
18 “‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 30:20; Jeremiah 52:5–6; Ezekiel 1:2
- 2 Ezekiel 29:19; Ezekiel 30:10; Ezekiel 31:18; Isaiah 14:13–14; Jeremiah 1:17
- 3 Isaiah 10:33–34; Daniel 4:20–23; Daniel 4:10; Ezekiel 17:3–4; Judges 9:15
- 4 Revelation 17:15; Proverbs 14:28; Ezekiel 17:8; Ezekiel 17:5; Revelation 17:1
- 5 Daniel 4:11; Ezekiel 17:5; Isaiah 37:11–13; Isaiah 36:4; Psalm 1:3
- 6 Matthew 13:32; Ezekiel 17:23; Daniel 4:21; Daniel 4:12
- 8 Ezekiel 28:13; Psalm 80:10; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Genesis 2:8–9
- 9 Psalm 75:6–7; Genesis 13:10; Ezekiel 28:13; Daniel 2:37–38; Isaiah 51:3
- 10 Ezekiel 28:17; Daniel 5:20; 2 Chronicles 32:25; Proverbs 18:12; Ezekiel 31:14
- 11 Ezekiel 32:11–12; Daniel 5:18–19; Nahum 3:18; Deuteronomy 18:12; James 2:13
- 12 Ezekiel 28:7; Ezekiel 35:8; Ezekiel 30:11; Nahum 3:17–18; Habakkuk 1:6
- 13 Ezekiel 32:4; Isaiah 18:6; Ezekiel 29:5; Revelation 19:17–18
- 14 Nehemiah 13:18; Psalm 63:9–10; Psalm 82:7; 2 Peter 2:6; Ezekiel 26:20
- 15 Nahum 2:8–10; Malachi 3:4; Revelation 18:9–11; Revelation 18:18–19
- 16 Isaiah 14:15; Ezekiel 26:15; Isaiah 14:8; Ezekiel 31:9; Ezekiel 27:28
- 17 Ezekiel 31:6; Psalm 9:17; Ezekiel 31:3; Isaiah 14:9; Mark 4:32
- 18 Ezekiel 32:19; Ezekiel 32:21; Ezekiel 28:10; Matthew 13:19; Ezekiel 31:2
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