Ezekiel 31:2
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "say to the king of Egypt and all his people: How powerful you are! What can I compare you to?

New Revised Standard Version
Mortal, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes: Whom are you like in your greatness?

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, tell the king of Egypt and his people that I am saying: You are more powerful than anyone on earth. Now listen to this.

New American Bible
Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his hordes: In your greatness, whom do you resemble?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?

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Jeremiah 1:5,17 Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee: and before thou camest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and made thee a prophet unto the nations. . . .

Revelation 10:11 And he said to me: Thou must prophesy again to many nations and peoples and tongues and kings.

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Ezekiel 29:19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall take her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: and it shall be wages for his army.

Ezekiel 30:10 Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon.

Nahum 3:8-10 Art thou better than the populous Alexandria, that dwelleth among the rivers? waters are round about it: the sea is its riches: the waters are its walls. . . .

Whom

Ezekiel 31:18 To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Isaiah 14:13,14 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north. . . .

Context
Egypt will Fall Like Assyria
1And it came to pass, in the eleventh year, the third month the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?3Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.…
Cross References
Ezekiel 29:15
It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall no more be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish them that they shall rule no more over the nations.

Ezekiel 29:19
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall take her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: and it shall be wages for his army.

Ezekiel 30:10
Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon.

Nahum 3:9
Ethiopia and Egypt were the strength thereof, and there is no end: Africa and the Libyans were thy helpers.

Ezekiel 31:1
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