1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: “Whom are you like in your greatness?
3 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height,its top among the clouds.
4 The waters nourished it;the deep made it grow tall,making its rivers flowaround the place of its planting,sending forth its streamsto all the trees of the field.
5 So it towered highabove all the trees of the field;its boughs grew largeand its branches longfrom abundant water in its shoots.
6 All the birds of the heavensmade their nests in its boughs;under its branches all the beasts of the fieldgave birth to their young,and under its shadowlived all great nations.