Monday in Season after Pentecost

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1Verse 1. In the eleventh year, on the first day of the third month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2Verse 2. “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Who can be compared to your greatness? 3Verse 3. Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds. 4Verse 4. The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field. 5Verse 5. Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the field. Its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long as it spread them out because of the abundant waters. 6Verse 6. All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade. 7Verse 7. It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant waters. 8Verse 8. The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty. 9Verse 9. I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’ 10Verse 10. Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height, 11Verse 11. I delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it. 12Verse 12. Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.