Study Desk

And it happened in the eleventh year, in the third month , on the first of the month, the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his host: To whom are you like in your greatness?

Behold, Assyria was like a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and forest shade and exalted in height, and his top was among the thick boughs.

The waters made him great and the deep made him high with her rivers, going all around her planting, and she sent out her channels to all the trees of the field.

On account of this, his height was lifted up above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long in his sending, because of the many waters.

All the birds of the heavens nested in his boughs, and under his branches all the beasts of the field gave birth, and in his shadow dwelt all great nations.

And he was fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches. For his root was to many waters.

The cedars did not overshadow him in the garden of God. The fir trees were not like his boughs, and the plane trees were not like his branches. Every tree in the garden of God was not like him in its beauty.

I have made him beautiful by his many branches, and all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied him.