1 On the first day of the third month of the eleventh year, the word of Adonai came to me saying:
2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Who is like you in your greatness?
3 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches shadowing the forest, of lofty height. Its top was in leafy branches.
4 Water nourished it, the deep made it tall, with its rivers going around its planting as it sent out its water-courses to all the trees of the field.