1 And then in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd, ‘To whom are you like in your greatness?
3 Look! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and a forest giving shade, and very high, and its treetop was between the clouds.
4 Waters made it great, the deep made it grow high; its rivers were going all around its planting area, and its channels it sent out to all of the trees of the field.