Ezekiel 31:3-7 ▼

3 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade And lofty in height, And its top was among the clouds.

4 The waters made it grow; the deep made it high. With its rivers it was going all around its planting place And sent out its conduits to all the trees of the field.

5 Therefore its height was loftier than all the trees of the field, And its boughs became many and its branches long Because of many waters as it spread them out.

6 All the birds of the sky nested in its boughs, And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth, And all great nations lived under its shade.

7 So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its foliage; For its roots extended to many waters.