Ezekiel 31:7 It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Cross References

Ezekiel 31:6
All 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.

Ezekiel 31:8
The 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.

Daniel 4:12
The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelled in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. fowls … made … nests in … boughs—so Eze 17:23; Da 4:12. The gospel kingdom shall gather all under its covert, for their good and for the glory of God, which the world kingdoms did for evil and for self-aggrandizement (Mt 13:32).