Ezekiel 31:3 - Forerunner Commentary

Ezekiel 31:3

Egypt Cut Down Like a Great Tree

1 Now it came to pass in the ^aeleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

2 “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude:
^a‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

3 ^aIndeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
With fine branches that shaded the forest,
And of high stature;
And its top was among the thick boughs.

4 ^aThe waters made it grow;
Underground waters gave it height,
With their rivers running around the place where it was planted,
And sent out¹ rivulets to all the trees of the field.

5 ‘Therefore ^aits height was exalted above all the trees of the field;
Its boughs were multiplied,
And its branches became long because of the abundance of water,
As it sent them out.

6 All the ^abirds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs;
Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young;
And in its shadow all great nations¹ made their home.

7 ‘Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches,
Because its roots reached to abundant waters.

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Interlinear Bible for Ezekiel 31:3:

Behold,
hinneh (#2009) the Assyrian
'Ashshuwr (#804) was a cedar
'erez (#730) in Lebanon
Lbanown (#3844) with fair
yapheh (#3303) branches,
`anaph (#6057) and with a shadowing
tsalal (#6751) shroud,
choresh (#2793) and of a high
gabahh (#1362) stature;
qowmah (#6967) and his top
tsammereth (#6788) was
hayah (#1961) among
beyn (#996) the thick boughs.
`aboth (#5688)

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