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31:1  In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, this word of the Lord was addressed to me:
31:2  Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his hordes: What can compare in greatness with you?
31:3  Consider Assyria, formerly a cypress in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and lofty in stature, and its top above the thick foliage.
31:4  The waters nourished it; deep springs caused it to grow tall; those springs also made its rivers flow around the place it was planted, sending forth streams of water to all the trees of the field.
31:5  Therefore, it towered in height above all other trees of the field. Its branches grew long because of the abundant water.
31:6  All the birds of the air rested in its boughs. Under its branches, all the wild animals of the field gave birth to their young, and numerous people of every race dwelt in its shade.
31:7  It was beautiful and stately in the length of its branches, for its roots sank down to a source of abundant water.
31:8  The cedars in the garden of God could not compare with it, nor could the fir trees equal its boughs. No plane tree had such branches; no tree in the garden of God could equal its beauty.
31:9  I made it beautiful with its mass of foliage; it was the envy of all the trees in Eden that were in the garden of God.
31:10  Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because it grew to a towering stature, with its top reaching the clouds, and then became arrogant with pride about its height,
31:11  I handed it over to the prince of the nations. I empowered him to deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have rejected it.
31:12  Foreigners from the most barbarous nations cut it down and abandoned it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and its boughs lie broken in every ravine throughout the land. All the peoples of the land fled from its shade and abandoned it.
31:13  On its fallen trunk all the birds of the air rested, and all the wild animals sought shelter among its branches.
31:14  Thus, never again will any tree by the waters grow to a lofty height and stretch its top to the clouds, nor will any well-watered tree ever attain such a height. For all of them are destined for death, for the depths below, along with all mortal beings who go down to the abyss.
31:15  Thus says the Lord God: On the day it went down to Sheol, I closed the deep over it. I stopped its streams, and its mighty waters were held back. I cast gloom over Lebanon because of it, and all the trees of the countryside began to wither.
31:16  I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I hurled it down to Sheol with those who go down to the abyss. All the trees of Eden, the loveliest and the best of Lebanon, were consoled, all that were well watered.
31:17  Those who dwelt in its shade, its allies among the nations, went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.
31:18  Which among the trees of Eden was your equal in glory and greatness? Yet you have been hurled down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie in the company of the uncircumcised who have been slain by the sword. Thus, it will be for Pharaoh and all his hordes, says the Lord God.