Ezekiel 31:1-9

New Century Version

‘No one is like you in your greatness.
³ Assyria was once like a cedar tree in Lebanon
    with beautiful branches that shaded the forest.
It was very tall;
    its top was among the clouds.
⁴ Much water made the tree grow;
    the deep springs made it tall.
Rivers flowed
    around the bottom of the tree
and sent their streams
    to all other trees in the countryside.
⁵ So the tree was taller
    than all the other trees in the countryside.
Its limbs became long and big
    because of so much water.
⁶ All the birds of the sky
    made their nests in the tree’s limbs.
And all the wild animals
    gave birth under its branches.
All great nations
    lived in the tree’s shade.
⁷ So the tree was great and beautiful,
    with its long branches,
    because its roots reached down to much water.
⁸ The cedar trees in the garden of God
    were not as great as it was.
The pine trees
    did not have such great limbs.
The plane trees
    did not have such branches.
No tree in the garden of God
    was as beautiful as this tree.
⁹ I made it beautiful
    with many branches,
and all the trees of Eden in the garden of God
    wanted to be like it.