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Ezekiel 31:8

hThe cedars iin the garden of God could not rival it,

nor the fir trees equal its boughs;

neither were the plane trees

like its branches;

no tree iin the garden of God

was its equal in beauty.

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Ezekiel 31:8 — The New International Version (NIV)

The cedars in the garden of God

could not rival it,

nor could the junipers

equal its boughs,

nor could the plane trees

compare with its branches—

no tree in the garden of God

could match its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — New Living Translation (NLT)

No other cedar in the garden of God

could rival it.

No cypress had branches to equal it;

no plane tree had boughs to compare.

No tree in the garden of God

came close to it in beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it;

The fir trees were not like its boughs,

And the chestnut trees were not like its branches;

No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — New Century Version (NCV)

The cedar trees in the garden of God

were not as great as it was.

The pine trees

did not have such great limbs.

The plane trees

did not have such branches.

No tree in the garden of God

was as beautiful as this tree.

Ezekiel 31:8 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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 unto it in its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the cypresses were not like his boughs, and the plane-trees were not as his branches: no tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

The cedar trees in God’s garden couldn’t compare to it. 

The pine trees couldn’t equal its branches. 

The plane trees couldn’t measure up to its branches. 

All the trees in God’s garden couldn’t match its beauty. 

Ezekiel 31:8 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

The cedars in God’s garden could not rival it;

the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches,

nor could the plane trees match its boughs.

No tree in the garden of God

could compare with it in beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it,

nor the fir trees equal its boughs;

the plane trees were as nothing

compared with its branches;

no tree in the garden of God

was like it in beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Cedars in the garden of God

could not be equal to it;

fir trees could not resemble its branches,

and plane trees were not even like its branches;

any tree even in the garden of God

could not resemble it in its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

The cedar trees in my garden

were no match for it.

The pine trees

could not equal its limbs.

The plane trees

could not compare with its branches.

No tree in my garden

could match its beauty.

Ezekiel 31:8 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

‘The cedars in God’s garden could not match it;

The cypresses could not compare with its boughs,

And the plane trees could not match its branches.

No tree in God’s garden could compare with it in its beauty.


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