Ezekiel 31

Ezekiel 31:2

Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

Think not, that no king is comparable to thee, in power and greatness.

Ezekiel 31:3

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

Behold, the king of Assyria was a greater monarch than thyself: he was, in comparison of thee, as a tall cedar in Lebanon, largely spread.

Ezekiel 31:4

The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers, &c.

Whose roots were thoroughly watered, with constant streams, &c. So verse 5. 6, 7.

Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; not any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

The greatest princes, in the most flourishing kingdoms of the world, could not stand in comparison with him; but all of them were forced to vail to him, as more powerful and glorious than themselves. So verse 9.

Ezekiel 31:11

I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

I have therefore delivered him and his proud Nineveh, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar and his Babylonians: he shall deal with him as he deserves: I have rooted him out for his wickedness. So verse 12.

Ezekiel 31:14

To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot, &c.

To the end, that none of the proud princes of the earth should hereafter dare to exalt themselves, in the overweening and confidence of their own strength and glory.

Ezekiel 31:15

I covered the deep for him.

I caused those waters, wherewith he was nourished, to take up a mourning and lamentation for him.

Ezekiel 31:18

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: &c.

O Pharaoh, thou, that art thus like to the Assyrian, amongst all the kings of the earth, in glory and magnificence, thou shalt also be like him in thy ruin: thou, with the other princes of the world, shalt be brought down into the grave, and shalt be destroyed in the midst of thy fellow-heathens.