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Mortal, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes:

Whom are you like in your greatness?
    Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon,
with fair branches and forest shade,
    and of great height,
    its top among the clouds.[a]
The waters nourished it,
    the deep made it grow tall,
making its rivers flow[b]
    around the place where it was planted,
sending forth its streams
    to all the trees of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:3 Gk: Heb thick boughs
  2. Ezekiel 31:4 Gk: Heb rivers going

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