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Downfall of Egypt and Assyria

31 In the eleventh year,(A) in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ‘Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes,

“Who are you like in your greatness?
Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon,(B)
with beautiful branches and shady foliage
and of lofty height.
Its top was among the clouds.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 31:3 Or thick foliage, also in vv. 10,14