Ezekiel 31:3–9

³‘Behold, Assyria was a ^acedar in Lebanon

With beautiful branches and forest shade,

And ^1bvery high,

And its top was among the ²clouds.

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

With its rivers it continually ²extended all around its planting place,

And sent out its channels 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 heavens 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 branches;

For its ¹roots extended to many waters.

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

The ²cypresses could not compare with its boughs,

And the plane trees ³could not match its branches.

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

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

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