Ezekiel 31:1-9

Amplified Bible

‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
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‘Behold (listen carefully), Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and with forest shade,
And of high stature,
With its top among the clouds.
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‘The waters nourished it, the deep [underground waters] made it grow tall.
Its rivers ran all around the place where it was planted,
Sending out its streams to all the trees (other nations) of the field.
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‘Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the forest
And its boughs multiplied and its branches grew long;
Because there was so much water they spread outward.
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‘All the birds of the sky made their nests in its twigs,
And under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth [to their young],
And all of the great nations lived under its shadow.
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‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its roots extended [downward] to great waters.
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‘The cedars in the garden of God could not hide or rival it;
The cypress trees did not have boughs like it,
And the ^[a]plane trees did not have branches like it.
No tree in the garden of God was like it in its beauty.
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‘I made it beautiful with the great mass of its branches,
So that all the trees of ^[b]Eden which were in the garden of God were jealous of it (Assyria).