³ Consider Assyria,^(A) once a cedar in Lebanon,^(B)
    with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;
it towered on high,
    its top above the thick foliage.^(C)

⁶ All the birds of the sky
    nested in its boughs,
all the animals of the wild
    gave birth^(A) under its branches;
all the great nations
    lived in its shade.^(B)