Ezekiel 31:10

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast lifted up thyself in stature, and he hath set his top amidst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

In Context

9I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

11I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:19Thou thinkest, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart has lifted thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou contend with misfortune, that thou shouldest fall, thou and Judah with thee?

Job 11:11For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when [man] doth not consider it;

Proverbs 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; and before honour [goeth] humility.

Isaiah 14:13And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;

Ezekiel 31:14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, nor set their top amidst the thick boughs, and that none of them that drink water stand up in his height by himself; for they are all given over unto death in the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Daniel 5:20But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto presumption, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom, and they took his glory from him;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 31:2-10

The King of Assyria's Greatness. ( b. c. 588.) 1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness? 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with… Read the whole commentary →

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