Ezekiel 31:1-9

Christian Standard Bible

‘Who are you like in your greatness?
³ Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon,^(B)
with beautiful branches and shady foliage
and of lofty height.
Its top was among the clouds.^[a]
4 The waters caused it to grow;
the underground springs made it tall,
directing their rivers all around
the place where the tree was planted
and sending their channels
to all the trees of the field.
⁵ Therefore the cedar became greater in height
than all the trees of the field.^(C)
Its branches multiplied,
and its boughs grew long
as it spread them out
because of the abundant water.^(D)
6 All the birds of the sky
nested in its branches,^(E)
and all the animals of the field
gave birth beneath its boughs;
all the great nations lived in its shade.
⁷ It was beautiful in its size,
in the length of its limbs,
for its roots extended to abundant water.
⁸ The cedars in God’s garden could not eclipse it;^(F)
the pine trees couldn’t compare with its branches,
nor could the plane trees match its boughs.
No tree in the garden of God
could compare with it in beauty.