Ezekiel 31:3–9

³Behold, I will liken you to^d a cedar in Lebanon,

with fair branches and forest shade,

and of great height,

its top among the clouds.^e

⁴The waters nourished it,

the deep made it grow tall,

making its rivers flow^f

round the place of its planting,

sending forth its streams

to all the trees of the forest.

⁵So it towered high

above all the trees of the forest;

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 beasts of the field

brought forth their young;

and under its shadow

dwelt all great nations.

⁷It was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches;

for its roots went down

to abundant waters.

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

in the mass of its branches,

and all the trees of Eden envied it,

that were in the garden of God.