Verse 18
Ezekiel 31:18
World English Bible, British Edition
18
“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness amongst
the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth.
You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
“‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD.”
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֶל מִ֨י דָמִ֥יתָ כָּ֛כָה בְּ/כָב֥וֹד וּ/בְ/גֹ֖דֶל בַּ/עֲצֵי עֵ֑דֶן וְ/הוּרַדְתָּ֨ אֶת עֲצֵי עֵ֜דֶן אֶל אֶ֣רֶץ תַּחְתִּ֗ית בְּ/ת֨וֹךְ עֲרֵלִ֤ים תִּשְׁכַּב֙ אֶת חַלְלֵי חֶ֔רֶב ה֤וּא פַרְעֹה֙ וְ/כָל הֲמוֹנֹ֔/ה נְאֻ֖ם אֲדֹנָ֥/י יְהוִֽה
English Translation
To whom have you likened such glory and greatness among the cedars of Eden, and you have brought down the cedars of Eden to the lowest land, among the uncircumcised you will lie with the slain by the sword; he is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says my Lord Yahweh.
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Chapter 31 Context
1
In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month,
The LORD’s word came to me,...
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2
“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude:
‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
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3
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
with beautiful branches,
and with a forest-like shade,
o...
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4
The waters nourished it.
The deep made it to grow.
Its rivers ran all around its plantation.
It sent...
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5
Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;
and its boughs were multiplied....
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6
All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs.
Under its branches, all the animals of the...
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7
Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its branches;
for its root was by many wate...
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8
The cedars in the garden of God (Elohim) could not hide it.
The cypress trees were not like its bran...
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9
I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,
so that all the trees of Eden,
that were in th...
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10
“Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: ‘Because he is exalted in
stature, and he has set his top amongst...
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11
I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations.
He will surely deal with him. I h...
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12
Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off and have left
him. His branches have fallen...
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13
All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals
of the field will be on his bra...
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14
to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves
in their stature, and don’t set...
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15
“The Lord GOD says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep...
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16
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him
down to Sheol with those who d...
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17
They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the
sword; yes, those who were his...
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18
“‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness amongst
the trees of Eden? Yet you will be bro...