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Cedars in the garden of God
    could not be equal to it;
fir trees[a] could not resemble its branches,
    and plane trees were not even like its branches;
any tree even in the garden of God
    could not resemble it in its beauty.
I made it beautiful with the abundance of its branches,
    and all of the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it.’”

10 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because[b] it was tall in height and it set its treetop between[c] thick clouds, and he took pride in his tallness,[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:8 Or possibly, juniper
  2. Ezekiel 31:10 Literally “because that”
  3. Ezekiel 31:10 Hebrew “to between”
  4. Ezekiel 31:10 Literally “and his heart he raised in his tallness”