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Ezekiel 30
²⁴ I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and put my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he will lie there mortally wounded, groaning in pain.
²⁵ I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, while the arms of Pharaoh fall useless to his sides. And when I put my sword in the hand of Babylon’s king and he brings it against the land of Egypt, Egypt will know that I am the LORD.
²⁶ I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, dispersing them throughout the earth. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
Ezekiel 31
¹ On June 21, during the eleventh year of King Jehoiachin’s captivity, this message came to me from the LORD:
² “Son of man, give this message to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and all his hordes: “To whom would you compare your greatness?
³ You are like mighty Assyria, which was once like a cedar of Lebanon, with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shade and with its top high among the clouds.
⁴ Deep springs watered it and helped it to grow tall and luxuriant. The water flowed around it like a river, streaming to all the trees nearby.
⁵ This great tree towered high, higher than all the other trees around it. It prospered and grew long thick branches because of all the water at its roots.
⁶ The birds nested in its branches, and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth. All the great nations of the world lived in its shadow.
⁷ It was strong and beautiful, with wide-spreading branches, for its roots went deep into abundant water.
⁸ No other cedar in the garden of God could rival it. No cypress had branches to equal it; no plane tree had boughs to compare. No tree in the garden of God came close to it in beauty.