Ezekiel 31:7-9

The Voice

⁷     It was magnificent in its beauty,
        grand in its form, and long in its branches;
    For its roots grew deep and tapped the sources of many waters.
⁸     No cedar trees in God’s garden could rival it;
        no junipers could grow as many boughs;
        no oriental plane trees could match its many branches;
    No trees in God’s garden could rival its magnificent beauty!
⁹     I made it mighty and beautiful;
        I molded its limbs, leaves, and branches
    To be the envy of every tree in Eden,
        of each tree in God’s garden.