⁴⁸ 主耶和華說：我指著我的永生起誓，你妹妹所多瑪與他的眾女尚未行你和你眾女所行的事。

¹ 你們要讚美耶和華！因歌頌我們的神為善為美；讚美的話是合宜的。

² 耶和華建造耶路撒冷，聚集以色列中被趕散的人。

³ 他醫好傷心的人，裹好他們的傷處。

⁴ 他數點星宿的數目，一一稱他的名。

⁵ 我們的主為大，最有能力；他的智慧無法測度。

⁶ 耶和華扶持謙卑人，將惡人傾覆於地。

⁷ 你們要以感謝向耶和華歌唱，用琴向我們的神歌頌。

⁸ 他用雲遮天，為地降雨，使草生長在山上。

⁹ 他賜食給走獸和啼叫的小烏鴉。

¹⁰ 他不喜悅馬的力大，不喜愛人的腿快。

¹¹ 耶和華喜愛敬畏他和盼望他慈愛的人。

¹² 耶路撒冷啊，你要頌讚耶和華！錫安哪，你要讚美你的神！

¹³ 因為他堅固了你的門閂，賜福給你中間的兒女。

¹⁴ 他使你境內平安，用上好的麥子使你滿足。

¹⁵ 他發命在地；他的話頒行最快。

¹⁶ 他降雪如羊毛，撒霜如爐灰。

¹⁷ 他擲下冰雹如碎渣；他發出寒冷，誰能當得起呢？

¹⁸ 他一出令，這些就都消化；他使風颳起，水便流動。

¹⁹ 他將他的道指示雅各，將他的律例典章指示以色列。

²⁰ 別國他都沒有這樣待過；至於他的典章，他們向來沒有知道。你們要讚美耶和華！

¹ It happened in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

² Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?

³ Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

⁴ The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

⁵ Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.

⁶ All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.

⁷ Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

⁸ The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

⁹ I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

¹⁰ Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

¹¹ I will even deliver 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.

¹² Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

¹³ On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

¹⁴ to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

¹⁶ I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

¹⁷ They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, [that] lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

¹⁸ To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.