1. On the first day of the third month of the eleventh year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
2. “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Who is like you in your greatness?
3. Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches shadowing the forest, of lofty height. Its top was in leafy branches.
4. Water nourished it, the deep made it tall, with its rivers going around its planting as it sent out its water-courses to all the trees of the field.
5. Therefore its height was loftier than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied and its boughs became long because of the abundant water in its shoots.
6. All the birds of the sky nested in its branches. All the beasts of the field gave birth to their young under its branches. All great nations lived under its shade.
7. It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was in abundant water.
8. The cedars in the garden of God could not compare with it. No cypress trees could rival its boughs. No plane-trees could match its branches. No tree in the garden of God could compare to its beauty.
9. I made it beautiful with its many limbs. All the trees of Eden in God’s garden envied it.’”
10. Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because you were exalted in height —its top set up among leafy branches, its heart haughty in its height—
11. I gave it into the hand of a ruler of nations, who surely dealt with it. I drove it out as befits its wickedness.
12. Ruthless barbarians from the nations cut it down. They cast it down on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches fell. Its branches have laid broken in all the streambeds of the land. All the people of the earth have come out from its shade and abandoned it.
13. All the birds of the sky lived on its fallen trunk and all the beasts of the field upon its fallen branches.