Ezekiel 31:3–9

^3cIndeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,

With fine branches that shaded the forest,

And of high stature;

And its top was among the thick boughs.

^4dThe waters made it grow;

Underground waters gave it height,

With their rivers running around the place where it was planted,

And sent out ¹rivulets to all the trees of the field.

⁵‘Therefore ^eits height was exalted above all the trees of the field;

Its boughs were multiplied,

And its branches became long because of the abundance of water,

As it sent them out.

⁶All the ^fbirds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs;

Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young;

And in its shadow all great nations ²made their home.

⁷‘Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches,

Because its roots reached to abundant waters.

⁸The cedars in the ^ggarden of God could not hide it;

The fir trees were not like its boughs,

And the ³chestnut trees were not like its branches;

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

⁹I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches,

So that all the trees of Eden envied it,

That were in the garden of God.’