Ezekiel 31:3–9

³‘Behold, Assyria was a ^acedar in Lebanon

With beautiful branches and forest shade

And ^blofty in height,

And its top was among the ¹clouds.

⁴‘The ^awaters made it grow; the ¹deep made it high.

With its rivers it was going all around its planting place

And sent out its conduits to all the trees of the field.

⁵‘Therefore ^aits height was loftier than all the trees of the field,

And its boughs became many and its branches long

Because of ^bmany waters ¹as it spread them out.

⁶‘All the ^abirds of the sky nested in its boughs,

And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,

And all great nations lived under its shade.

⁷‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its foliage;

For its ¹roots extended to many waters.

⁸‘The ^acedars in ^bGod’s garden ¹could not match it;

The ²cypresses ³could not liken themselves with its boughs,

And the plane trees were not like its branches.

No tree in ^cGod’s garden ⁴could liken itself with it in its beauty.

⁹‘I made it beautiful with the multitude of its foliage,

And all the trees of ^aEden, which were in the ^bgarden of God, were jealous of it.