1. And it came to be in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first of the month, that the word of יהוה came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, say to Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim and to his crowd, ‘To whom are you to be compared in your greatness?
3. ‘See, Ashshur was a cedar in Leḇanon, fair branches and forest shade, and of high stature. And its top was among the thick foliage.