Ezekiel 31

vayehi be'akhat esreh shanah bashelishi be'ekhad lakhodesh hayah devar-Adonai elay lemor

In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of GOD came to me:

ben-adam emor el-paroh melekh-mitsrayim ve'el-hamono el-mi damita vegodlekha

O mortal, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his hordes: Who was comparable to you in greatness?

hinneh ashur erez ballevanon yefeh anaf vekhoresh metsal ugevah qomah uven avotim hayetah tsammarto

Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and shady thickets, Of lofty stature, With its top among leafy trees.

mayim giddeluhu tehom romematehu et-naharoteha holekh sevivot matta'ah ve'et-te'aloteha shilkhah el kol-atse hassadeh

Waters nourished it, The deep made it grow tall, Washing with its streams The place where it was planted, Making its channels well up To all the trees of the field.

al-ken govha qomato mikkol atse hassadeh vattirbenah sarappotayw vatte'erakhnah forotav mimmayim rabbim beshallekho

Therefore it exceeded in stature All the trees of the field; Its branches multiplied and its boughs grew long Because of the abundant water That welled up for it.

bisappotayw qinnu kol-of hashamayim vetakhat porotayw yaledu kol khayyat hassadeh uvetsillo yeshevu kol goyim rabbim

In its branches nested All the birds of the sky; All the beasts of the field Bore their young under its boughs, And in its shadow lived All the great nations.

vayyeyif begodlo be'orekh daliyyotayw ki-hayah shorsho el-mayim rabbim

It was beautiful in its height, In the length of its branches, Because its stock stood By abundant waters.

arazim lo-amamuhu began-elohim beroshim lo damu el-se'appotayw ve'armonim lo-hayu keforotayw kol-ets began-elohim lo-damah elayw beyofyo

Cedars in the garden of God Could not compare with it; Cypresses could not match its boughs, And plane trees could not vie with its branches; No tree in the garden of God Was its peer in beauty.

yafeh asitiv berov daliyyotayw vayeqanuhu kol-atse-eden asher began ha'elohim

I made it beautiful In the profusion of its branches; And all the trees of Eden envied it In the garden of God.

lakhen koh amar adonay Elohim ya'an asher gavahta beqomah vayyitten tsammarto el-ben avotim veram levavo begovho

Assuredly, thus said the Sovereign GOD: Because it towered high in stature, and thrust its top up among the leafy trees, and it was arrogant in its height,

ve'ettenehu beyad el goyim aso ya'aseh lo kerisho gerashtihu

I delivered it into the hands of the mightiest of nations. They treated it as befitted its wickedness. I banished it.

vayyikhretuhu zarim aritse goyim vayyitteshuhu el-heharim uvekhol-ge'ayot nafelu daliyyotayw vattishavarnah forotayw bekhol afiqe ha'arets vayyeredu mitsillo kol-amme ha'arets vayyitteshuhu

Strangers, the most ruthless of nations, cut it down and abandoned it; its branches fell on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs were splintered in every watercourse of the earth; and all the peoples of the earth departed from its shade and abandoned it.

al-mappalto yishkenu kol-of hashamayim ve'el-porotayw hayu kol khayyat hassadeh

Upon its fallen trunk all the birds of the sky nest, and all the beasts of the field lodge among its boughs—

lema'an asher lo-yigbehu veqomatam kol-atse-mayim velo-yittenu et-tsammartam el-ben avotim velo-ya'amdu elehem begovham kol-shote mayim ki-khullam nittenu lammavet el-erets takhtit betokh bene adam el-yorede vor

so that no trees by water should exalt themselves in stature or set their tops among the leafy trees, and that no well-watered tree may reach up to them in height. For they are all consigned to death, to the lowest part of the netherworld, together with human beings who descend into the Pit.

koh-amar adonay Elohim beyom ridto she'olah he'evalti kisseti alayw et-tehom va'emna naharoteha vayyikkale'u mayim rabbim va'aqdir alayw levanon vekhol-atse hassadeh alayw ulpeh

Thus said the Sovereign GOD: On the day it went down to Sheol, I closed the deep over it and covered it; I held back its streams, and the great waters were checked. I made Lebanon mourn deeply for it, and all the trees of the field languished on its account.

miqqol mappalto hirashti goyim behoridi oto she'olah et-yorede vor vayyinnakhamu be'erets takhtit kol-atse-eden mivkhar vetov-levanon kol-shote mayim

I made nations quake at the crash of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all that were well watered, were consoled in the lowest part of the netherworld.

gam-hem itto yaredu she'olah el-khalle-kharev uzero'o yashevu vetsillo betokh goyim

They also descended with it into Sheol, to those slain by the sword, together with its supporters, they who had lived under its shadow among the nations.

el-mi damita kakhah bekhavod uvegodel ba'atse-eden vehuradta et-atse-eden el-erets takhtit betokh arelim tishkav et-khalle-kherev hu faroh vekhol-hamonoh ne'um adonay Elohim

[Now you know] who is comparable to you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden. And you too shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lowest part of the netherworld; you shall lie among the uncircumcised and those slain by the sword. Such shall be [the fate of] Pharaoh and all his hordes—declares the Sovereign GOD.