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“Mortal man,” he said, “say to the king of Egypt and all his people:

How powerful you are!
What can I compare you to?
You are like[a] a cedar in Lebanon,
With beautiful, shady branches,
A tree so tall it reaches the clouds.[b]
There was water to make it grow,
And underground rivers to feed it.
They watered the place where the tree was growing
And sent streams to all the trees of the forest.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:3 Probable text You are like; Hebrew Assyria is.
  2. Ezekiel 31:3 One ancient translation clouds; Hebrew thick branches.

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