Ezekiel 31:1-9

Revised Standard Version

³     Behold, I will liken you to^[a] a cedar in Lebanon,
with fair branches and forest shade,
    and of great height,
    its top among the clouds.^[b]
4 The waters nourished it,
    the deep made it grow tall,
making its rivers flow^[c]
    round the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
    to all the trees of the forest.
⁵ So it towered high
    above all the trees of the forest;
its boughs grew large
    and its branches long,
    from abundant water in its shoots.
⁶ All the birds of the air
    made their nests in its boughs;
under its branches all the beasts of the field
    brought forth their young;
and under its shadow
    dwelt all great nations.
⁷ It was beautiful in its greatness,
    in the length of its branches;
for its roots went down
    to abundant waters.
⁸ The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it,
    nor the fir trees equal its boughs;
the plane trees were as nothing
    compared with its branches;
no tree in the garden of God
    was like it in beauty.
⁹ I made it beautiful
    in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of Eden envied it,
    that were in the garden of God.