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Ezekiel 31
¹⁵ ’Thus says the Lord God, "On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.
¹⁶ I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.
¹⁷ They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.
¹⁸ "To which among the trees of Eden are you thus equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!"’ declares the Lord God."
Ezekiel 32
¹ In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,
² "Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, ’You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers.’"
³ Thus says the Lord God, "Now I will spread My net over you With a company of many peoples, And they shall lift you up in My net.
⁴ "I will leave you on the land; I will cast you on the open field. And I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you, And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.
⁵ "I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.
⁶ "I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you.
⁷ "And when I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light.