Ezekiel 31:3–9

³Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon,

with fair branches and forest shade,

and of great height,

its top among the clouds.^*

⁴The waters nourished it;

the deep made it grow tall,

flowing with its rivers

around the place it was planted,

sending forth its streams

to all the trees of the field.^*

⁵So it towered high

above all the trees of the field;

its boughs grew large

and its branches long,

from abundant water in its shoots.^*

⁶All the birds of the air

made their nests in its boughs;

under its branches all the animals of the field

gave birth to their young,

and in its shade

all great nations lived.^*

⁷It was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches,

for its roots went down

to abundant water.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it

nor the fir trees equal its boughs;

the plane trees were as nothing

compared with its branches;

no tree in the garden of God

was like it in beauty.^*

⁹I made it beautiful

with its mass of branches,

the envy of all the trees of Eden

that were in the garden of God.