Ezekiel 31 (NET)

Ezekiel 31:1¹In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the Lord’ s message came to me:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 30:20Jer 52:5-6Ezek 1:2

Ezekiel 31:2²“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and his hordes: “‘Who are you like in your greatness?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 29:19Ezek 30:10Ezek 31:18Isa 14:13-14Jer 1:17Jer 1:5Nah 3:8-10Rev 10:11

Ezekiel 31:3³Consider Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, like a forest giving shade, and extremely tall; its top reached into the clouds.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 10:33-34Dan 4:10Dan 4:20-23Ezek 17:22Ezek 17:3-4Judg 9:15Dan 4:12Ezek 31:16Ezek 31:6Isa 37:24

Ezekiel 31:4⁴The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 17:5Ezek 17:8Prov 14:28Rev 17:1Rev 17:15Jer 51:36

Ezekiel 31:5⁵Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches grew long, because of the plentiful water in its shoots.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:11Ezek 17:5Isa 10:8-14Isa 36:18-19Isa 36:4Isa 37:11-13Ps 1:3Ps 37:35-36

Ezekiel 31:6⁶All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth; in its shade all the great nations lived.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 17:23Matt 13:32Dan 4:12Dan 4:21

Ezekiel 31:7⁷It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Ezekiel 31:8⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:13Gen 13:10Isa 51:3Ps 80:10Ezek 31:16Ezek 31:18Gen 2:8-9Isa 10:7-14Isa 36:4-18Isa 37:11-13

Ezekiel 31:9⁹I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 2:37-38Ezek 28:13Gen 13:10Isa 51:3Ps 75:6-71 Sam 18:15Dan 2:21Dan 4:22-25Dan 5:20-23Eccl 4:4

Ezekiel 31:10¹⁰“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:20Ezek 28:172 Chr 32:252 Chr 25:19Dan 4:30Ezek 31:14Isa 10:12Isa 14:13-15Jas 4:6Job 11:11-12

Ezekiel 31:11¹¹I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly, as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:18-19Deut 18:12Ezek 32:11-12Nah 3:181 Tim 1:20Ezek 11:9Ezek 21:31Ezek 23:28Jas 2:13Jer 25:9

Ezekiel 31:12¹²Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land have departed from its shade and left it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 28:7Ezek 35:8Ezek 30:11Hab 1:6Nah 3:17-18Dan 4:12-14Ezek 32:12Ezek 32:4-5Ezek 35:5Ezek 39:4

Ezekiel 31:13¹³On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 32:4Ezek 29:5Isa 18:6Rev 19:17-18

Ezekiel 31:14¹⁴For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the Pit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:112 Pet 2:6Ezek 26:20Neh 13:18Ps 63:9-10Ps 82:7Dan 4:32Dan 5:22-23Deut 13:11Deut 21:21

Ezekiel 31:15¹⁵“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day it went down to Sheol I caused observers to lament. I covered it with the deep and held back its rivers; its plentiful water was restrained. I clothed Lebanon in black for it, and all the trees of the field wilted because of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 3:4Nah 2:8-10Rev 18:18-19Rev 18:9-11

Ezekiel 31:16¹⁶I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 14:15Ezek 26:15Isa 14:8Ezek 27:28Ezek 31:9Hab 2:17Hag 2:7Ezek 14:22Ezek 26:10Ezek 31:14

Ezekiel 31:17¹⁷Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 31:6Ps 9:17Ezek 31:3Dan 4:11-12Ezek 30:21-25Ezek 30:6-8Ezek 32:20-31Isa 14:9Lam 4:20Mark 4:32

Ezekiel 31:18¹⁸Which of the trees of Eden was like you in majesty and loftiness? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword! This is what will happen to Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 32:19Ezek 28:10Ezek 32:21Ezek 31:16Ezek 31:2Jer 9:25-26Matt 13:19Ps 52:71 Cor 10:141 Sam 17:26