Ezekiel 31

Ezekiel · Chapter 31

Ezekiel 31:3

1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,2Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.4The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.10Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;11I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.13Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.15Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.17They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
there!הִנֵּ֨הhi-NEHH2009
behold

הִנֵּה (hin.neh) behold, lo, see, if

Assyriaאַשּׁ֜וּר'a-SHURH0804G
Assyria

אַשּׁוּר (ash.shur) § Asshur or Assyria = "a step" the nation, Assyria the land, Assyria or Asshur

[was] a cedarאֶ֣רֶז'E-rezH0730
cedar

אֶ֫רֶז (e.rez) 1) cedar 1a) cedar tree 1b) cedar timber, cedar wood (in building) 1c) cedar wood (in purifications)

in the Lebanonבַּלְּבָנ֗וֹןba-le-va-NONH3844G
Lebanon

לְבָנוֹן (le.va.non) § Lebanon = "whiteness" a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel

beautiful ofיְפֵ֥הye-PEHH3303
beautiful

יָפֶה (ya.pheh) fair, beautiful, handsome

branch[es]עָנָ֛ף'a-NAFH6057
bough

עֲנַף (a.naph) bough, branch Aramaic of a.naph (עָנָף "branch" H6057)

and forestוְחֹ֥רֶשׁve-CHO-reshH2793H
wood

חֹ֫רֶשׁ (cho.resh) 1) wood, wooded height, forest, wooded area.

giving shadeמֵצַ֖לme-TZALH6751
to shade

צָלַל (tsa.lal) 1) to be or become or grow dark 1a) (Qal) to become or grow dark 1b) (Hiphil) to shadow

and tall ofוּגְבַ֣הּu-ge-VAHH1364
high

גָּבֹהַּ (ga.vah) 1) high, proud 1a) high, lofty, tall 1b) exalted in station 1c) haughty, proud

heightקוֹמָ֑הko-MAHH6967
height

קוֹמָה (qo.mah) 1) height 1a) height, stature 1b) height

and betweenוּבֵ֣יןu-VEINH0996H
between

בַּ֫יִן (ba.yin) : between between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between

branchesעֲבֹתִ֔ים'a-vo-TIMH5688
cord

עֲבֹת (a.vot) 1) cord, rope, cordage, foliage, interwoven foliage 1a) cord, rope, cordage, chain 1b) interwoven foliage

it wasהָיְתָ֖הha-ye-TAHH1961
to be

הָיָה (ha.yah) 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) --- 1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass 1a1b) to come about, come to pass 1a2) to come into being, become 1a2a) to arise, appear, come 1a2b) to become 1a2b1) to become 1a2b2) to become like 1a2b3) to be instituted, be established 1a3) to be 1a3a) to exist, be in existence 1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time) 1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality) 1a3d) to accompany, be with 1b) (Niphal) …

treetop itsצַמַּרְתּֽוֹ׃tza-mar-TOH6788
treetop

צַמֶּ֫רֶת (tsam.me.ret) treetop

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.