Ezekiel 31:1-3

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

The Lofty Cedar

31 In 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?
³    Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon,
with fair branches and forest shade,
    and of great height,
    its top among the clouds.^[a]

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Ezekiel 31:3 Gk: Heb thick boughs

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