1 And 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,
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his people. Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud and of a high stature; and his top was highest among the thick boughs.
4 The waters made him grow; the deep set him up on high; her rivers ran round his feet and sent her flow to all the trees of the field.