Today’s passage is taken from Ezekiel 31. You can read more in my Ezekiel Studies here and here.
Here is a reading of Ezekiel 31.
The Word of The Lord again came to Ezekiel, this time with a word against the Pharaoh of Egypt. He is to ask Pharaoh this question
with beautiful branches and forest shade,
and of towering height,
its top among the clouds.
4 The waters nourished it;
the deep made it grow tall,
making its rivers flow
around the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
to all the trees of the field.
5 So it towered high
above all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large
and its branches long
from abundant water in its shoots.
9 I made it beautiful
in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of Eden envied it,
that were in the garden of God.
So just as Egypt is challenged by the fall of Assyria….so I am challenged.
18 “Whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below. You shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.
“This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord God.”
Are you challenged as well? What do these words speak to your heart?
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