Ezekiel 31:3-9 ▼

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.

8 The cedars in God’s garden could not match it; The cypresses could not liken themselves with its boughs, And the plane trees were not like its branches. No tree in God’s garden could liken itself with it in its beauty.

9 I made it beautiful with the multitude of its foliage, And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.