Ezekiel 31:3–9

³Behold, ^xAssyria was a ^ycedar in ^zLebanon,

with beautiful branches and ^aforest shade,

^band of towering height,

its top among the clouds.¹

⁴The waters nourished it;

the deep made it grow tall,

making ^cits rivers flow

around the place of its planting,

sending forth its streams

to all the trees of the field.

⁵So ^dit towered high

above all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large

and its branches long

from ^eabundant water in its shoots.

^6fAll the birds of the heavens

made their nests in its boughs;

under its branches all the beasts of the field

gave birth to their young,

and under its shadow

lived all great nations.

⁷It was ^gbeautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches;

^efor its roots went down

to abundant waters.

^8hThe 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.

⁹I made it beautiful

in the mass of its branches,

and all the trees of ^jEden envied it,

that were in the garden of God.