Ezekiel 31:7
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New International Version (©2011)
It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.

New Living Translation (©2007)
It was strong and beautiful, with wide-spreading branches, for its roots went deep into abundant water.

English Standard Version (©2001)
It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; For its roots extended to many waters.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant water.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Beautiful because it was so great, with its long branches, it was rooted in many bodies of water.

NET Bible (©2006)
It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So the tree was big and beautiful with its long branches. Its roots reached down to many sources of water.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches: for its root reached to great waters.

American King James Version
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

American Standard Version
Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters.

Darby Bible Translation
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: because his root was by great waters.

English Revised Version
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by many waters.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

World English Bible
Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

Young's Literal Translation
And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

31:1-9 The falls of others, both into sin and ruin, warn us not to be secure or high-minded. The prophet is to show an instance of one whom the king of Egypt resembled in greatness, the Assyrian, compared to a stately cedar. Those who excel others, make themselves the objects of envy; but the blessings of the heavenly paradise are not liable to such alloy. The utmost security that any creature can give, is but like the shadow of a tree, a scanty and slender protection. But let us flee to God for protection, there we shall be safe. His hand must be owned in the rising of the great men of the earth, and we must not envy them. Though worldly people may seem to have firm prosperity, yet it only seems so.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus was he fair in his greatness,.... Amiable, lovely, delightful to look upon in the greatness of his majesty, in his royal glory and dignity:

in the length of his branches; in the extent of his empire, and the provinces of it:

for his root was by great waters; his kingdom was well established, firmly rooted among a multitude of people; from whom he had a large revenue to support his throne and government, and the dignity of it; by tribute, taxes, customs, and presents; and through the large trade and traffic of his subjects in different parts, from whence he received great profit and advantage. The Targum is,

"and he became victorious by his auxiliaries, by the multitude of his mighty ones, so that his terror was upon many people.''

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Egypt will Fall Like Assyria
…6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelled all great nations. 7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters. 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like to him in his beauty. …

Ezekiel 31:6 All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, all the animals of the wild gave birth under its branches; all the great nations lived in its shade.
Ezekiel 31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor could the junipers equal its boughs, nor could the plane trees compare with its branches-- no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.
Daniel 4:12 Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Under it the wild animals found shelter, and the birds lived in its branches; from it every creature was fed.