Ezekiel 31:3–9

³Look! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,

with beautiful branches^f and a forest giving shade,

and very high,^g

and its treetop was between the clouds.

⁴Waters made it great,

the deep made it grow high;

its rivers were going all around its planting area,^h

and its channels it sent out

to all of the trees of the field.

⁵Therefore it became tall,

with its height more than all of the trees of the field,

and its branches became numerous,

and its branches became long

from its sending its shoots from abundant water.ⁱ

⁶In its branches all the birds^j of the heaven^k made their nest,

and under its branches all the animals^l of the field gave birth,

and in its shadow all the many nations lived.

⁷And it was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches,

for its root was toward much water.

⁸Cedars in the garden of God

could not be equal to it;

fir trees^m 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.

⁹I made it beautiful with the abundance of its branches,

and all of the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it.’ ”