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And in Noph shall come adversaries in the day-time.

¹⁷The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword;

And these cities shall go into captivity.

¹⁸At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself,

When I shall break there the yokes of Egypt,

And the pride of her power shall cease in her;

As for her, a cloud shall cover her,

And her daughters shall go into captivity.

¹⁹Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt;

And they shall know that I am the Lord.'

²⁰And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying: ²¹'Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it hath not been bound up to be healed, to put a roller, that it be bound up and wax strong, that it hold the sword. ²²Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand. ²³And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries. ²⁴And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put My sword in his hand; but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man. ²⁵And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt. ²⁶And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries; and they shall know that I am the Lord.'

31And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying: ²'Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude:

Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

³Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon,

With fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud,

And of a high stature;

And its top was among the thick boughs.

⁴The waters nourished it,

The deep made it to grow;

Her rivers ran round

About her plantation,

And she sent out her conduits

Unto all the trees of the field.

⁵Therefore its stature was exalted

Above all the trees of the field;

And its boughs were multiplied,

And its branches became long,

Because of the multitude of waters, when it shot them forth.

⁶All the fowls of heaven made

Their nests in its boughs,

And all the beasts of the field did bring forth their young

Under its branches,

And under its shadow dwelt

All great nations.

⁷Thus was it fair in its greatness,

In the length of its branches;

For its root was

By many waters.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God

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