Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Ezekiel 30
²⁴ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh’s arms, and he will groan before him with the groanings of a mortally wounded man.
²⁵ Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; they shall know that I am the Lord, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he stretches it out against the land of Egypt.
²⁶ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.’ "
Ezekiel 31
¹ Now it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
² "Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ’Whom are you like in your greatness?
³ Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, With fine branches that shaded the forest, And of high stature; And its top was among the thick boughs.
⁴ The waters made it grow; Underground waters gave it height, With their rivers running around the place where it was planted, And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field.
⁵ ’Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field; Its boughs were multiplied, And its branches became long because of the abundance of water, As it sent them out.
⁶ All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; And in its shadow all great nations made their home.
⁷ ’Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant waters.
⁸ The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.