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31In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²Mortal, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: Whom are you like in your greatness? ³Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds. ⁴The waters nourished it, the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place it was planted, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field. ⁵So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots. ⁶All the birds of the air made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth to their young; and in its shade all great nations lived. ⁷It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant water. ⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty. ⁹I made it beautiful with its mass of branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God.