Egypt Will Fall like Assyria
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Ezk 30:20Jer 52:5-6Ezk 1:2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: Ezk 29:19Ezk 30:10Ezk 31:18Isa 14:13-14Jer 1:17Jer 1:5Nam 3:8-10Rev 10:11
‘Who can be compared
to your greatness?
Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, Isa 10:33-34Dan 4:10Dan 4:20-23Ezk 17:22Ezk 17:3-4Jdg 9:15Dan 4:12Ezk 31:16
with beautiful branches that shaded the forest.
It towered on high;
its top was among the clouds.
The waters made it grow; Ezk 17:5Ezk 17:8Pro 14:28Rev 17:1Rev 17:15Jer 51:36
the deep springs made it tall,
directing their streams all around its base
and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.
Therefore it towered higher Dan 4:11Ezk 17:5Isa 10:8-14Isa 36:18-19Isa 36:4Isa 37:11-13Psa 1:3Psa 37:35-36
than all the trees of the field.
Its branches multiplied,
and its boughs grew long
as it spread them out
because of the abundant waters.
All the birds of the air Ezk 17:23Mat 13:32Dan 4:12Dan 4:21
nested in its branches,
and all the beasts of the field
gave birth beneath its boughs;
all the great nations
lived in its shade.
It was beautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its limbs,
for its roots extended
to abundant waters.
The cedars in the garden of God Ezk 28:13Gen 13:10Isa 51:3Psa 80:10Ezk 31:16Ezk 31:18Gen 2:8-9Isa 10:7-14
could not rival it;
the cypresses 1could not compare with its branches,
nor the plane trees 2match its boughs.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare with its beauty.
I made it beautiful with its many branches, Dan 2:37-38Ezk 28:13Gen 13:10Isa 51:3Psa 75:6-71Sa 18:15Dan 2:21Dan 4:22-25
the envy of all the trees of Eden,
which were in the garden of God.’
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great 3in height and set its top among the clouds, 4 and it grew proud on account of its height, Dan 5:20Ezk 28:172Ch 32:252Ch 25:19Dan 4:30Ezk 31:14Isa 10:12Isa 14:13-15 I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it. Dan 5:18-19Deu 18:12Ezk 32:11-12Nam 3:181Ti 1:20Ezk 11:9Ezk 21:31Ezk 23:28
Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it. Ezk 28:7Ezk 35:8Ezk 30:11Hab 1:6Nam 3:17-18Dan 4:12-14Ezk 32:12Ezk 32:4-5
All the birds of the air nested on its fallen trunk, and all the beasts of the field lived among its boughs. Ezk 32:4Ezk 29:5Isa 18:6Rev 19:17-18 This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’ 1Co 10:112Pe 2:6Ezk 26:20Neh 13:18Psa 63:9-10Psa 82:7Dan 4:32Dan 5:22-23
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. Mal 3:4Nam 2:8-10Rev 18:18-19Rev 18:9-11 I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Isa 14:15Ezk 26:15Isa 14:8Ezk 27:28Ezk 31:9Hab 2:17Hag 2:7Ezk 14:22
Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below. They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations. Ezk 31:6Psa 9:17Ezk 31:3Dan 4:11-12Ezk 30:21-25Ezk 30:6-8Ezk 32:20-31Isa 14:9
Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’” Ezk 32:19Ezk 28:10Ezk 32:21Ezk 31:16Ezk 31:2Jer 9:25-26Mat 13:19Psa 52:7