1. And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
2. Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
3. Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature: and his top was amidst the thick boughs.