Ezekiel 31

31 ¹In the eleventh year, third month, first day, the word of our Father came to me:

²"Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his crowds: Who compares to you in your greatness? ³Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, towering in height, its top among the clouds. ⁴The waters made it great, the deep made it grow tall, its rivers flowing around the place where it was planted, sending its channels out to all the trees of the field. ⁵So its height towered above all the trees of the field; its boughs multiplied and its branches grew long because of the abundant waters as it spread out. ⁶In its boughs all the birds of the sky nested, under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth, and in its shade lived all the great nations. ⁷It was beautiful in its greatness, with its long branches, for its roots reached down to abundant waters. ⁸The cedars in the garden of our Father could not rival it; the cypresses could not match its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its branches. No tree in the garden of our Father was like it in beauty. ⁹I made it beautiful with its many branches, and all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of our Father envied it.'

¹⁰So the Sovereign Father says: "Because it towered high, set its top among the clouds, and its heart grew proud of its height, ¹¹'I handed it over to the mighty one of the nations, who has surely dealt with it; I drove it out for its wickedness. ¹²Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches fell on the mountains and in every valley, its boughs lay broken in all the land's ravines, and all the earth's peoples left its shade and abandoned it. ¹³On its fallen trunk all the birds settle, and among its branches all the wild animals, ¹⁴so no well-watered trees tower high or set their tops among the clouds, and none that drink water rise so high. For all are handed over to death, to the depths of the earth, among mortals, with those going down to the pit.'

¹⁵This is what the Sovereign Father says: "On the day it went down to the grave, I made the deep mourn and covered it for the tree; I held back its rivers, and the abundant waters were restrained. I darkened Lebanon over it, and all the field's trees withered because of it. ¹⁶At the sound of its fall I made nations shake, when I threw it down to the grave with those going down to the pit. Then in the depths of the earth, all Eden's trees, Lebanon's finest and best, all that drink water, were comforted. ¹⁷They too went down with it to the grave, to those killed by the sword—those who were its strength, who lived in its shade among the nations.'

¹⁸"Which tree of Eden matched your glory and greatness? Yet with Eden's trees you will be brought down to the depths, to lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his crowd, declares the Sovereign Father."