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.