“‘He took one of the seedlings of the land and put it in fertile soil. He planted it like a willow by abundant water,

It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and become a splendid vine.’

“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard planted by the water; it was fruitful and full of branches because of abundant water.

So it towered higher than all the trees of the field; its boughs increased and its branches grew long, spreading because of abundant waters.

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

I made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God.

“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away.

I will destroy all her cattle from beside abundant waters no longer to be stirred by the foot of man or muddied by the hooves of cattle.