Ezekiel - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 578

EZEKIEL. 31--7

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(0 II I2 bxtgnches, and all the beasts of the field bred under his boughs, and many uationsrested under his shade. And he was beautiful in his grandeur and wide~stretching leafage, for his roots were in plenty of water. The cedars in the garden of GOD could not hide him ; the pines were not equal to his boughs; nor were the planes to his branches ;——all the trees in the garden of GOD were not equal to him in his beauty. {made ham beautiful with his many branches ;-——and all the trees in the garden of GOD envied him ! the Misery 1.01211

because of excessive height,—and placing his foliage in the clouds, and lifting his heart in pride, I have given him to the Prince of Nations! He will deal with him ! I have driven him off in his crime! and foreign cruel nations shall cut him down, and abandon him on the hills, when all his glorious boughs will wither, and his branches be broken by the strong of the earth; and all the Peoples of the earth have Bed from his shade, and left him! Upon his wreck all the birds of the skies will settle, and all the beasts of the field come to his boughs. So let none of all the trees by the brooks exalt themselves on high, nor place their foliage in the clouds, nor station themselves above all the drinkers of water; for all will be given to death, to the earth beneath, amongst the sons of Adam, who go down to the pit! On the day he went to the grave,'

I mourned! I covered the deep for him! I stopped the rivers! I shut up many waters! I darkened Lebanon for him! And all the trees of the field fainted for him! At the sound of his fall the nations shook! At his descent to the grave ;—·—at his descent to the pit, the depths of the earth sighed ;—all the trees of Eden,—··—the bestand fairest of Leba.non,··~all~ that drink waters! They went down with him to the grave,-——to the slain by the sword,-who lay scattered beside him among the nations! ‘Are you like him in glory, and grandeur, among the trees of Eden You will still be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower earth among the defiled,-—lying with those killed by the sword,~——you, Pharoh, says the Mionrv Loup. 3 §irgz uber ylynrnly. It _was in the twelfth year, on the

twelfth month, on the first of the month, the command of the E»vER·· Livmc; came to me to say: 16

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Son of Adam; take up a lament for Pharoh, king of the Mitzeraim, 2 and say about him: iamrut utter @l3ar¤b. ‘ You were like a young lion to nations, And you were like to a reptile in seas; And you paddled your feet in the rivers, And muddled about in your streams. ‘ But thus says the MIGHTY jsnovan! Over you I will fling out My net, And My toils, with a great crowd of men! Leave on land, on the face of the field, And the birds of- the skies light on you, And the beasts of the earth on you gorge. On the hills I will fling out your flesh, And the vales shall be full of your worms! Flood the land where you swam with your blood, And- fill the dales up to the hills! ‘ When I quench you, I’ll darken the stars, Arid cover the sun in a cloud, And the moon shall not give out her light. For you darken the lamps of the skies, And spread darkness over yolir land,’ Thus the ALMIGHTY LORD has declared. ‘ Many nations will grieve at the heart, When I wreck you along with the tribes, 578