Ezekiel 31:3-9

English Standard Version

³     Behold, ^(A)Assyria was a ^(B)cedar in ^(C)Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and ^(D)forest shade,
    ^(E)and of towering height,
    its top among the clouds.^[a]
4 The waters nourished it;
    the deep made it grow tall,
making ^(F)its rivers flow
    around the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
    to all the trees of the field.
⁵ So ^(G)it towered high
    above all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large
    and its branches long
    from ^(H)abundant water in its shoots.
^6 (I)All the birds of the heavens
    made their nests in its boughs;
under its branches all the beasts of the field
    gave birth to their young,
and under its shadow
    lived all great nations.
⁷ It was ^(J)beautiful in its greatness,
    in the length of its branches;
^(K)for its roots went down
    to abundant waters.
^8 (L)The cedars ^(M)in the garden of God could not rival it,
    nor the fir trees equal its boughs;
neither were the plane trees
    like its branches;
no tree ^(N)in the garden of God
    was its equal in beauty.
⁹ I made it beautiful
    in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of ^(O)Eden envied it,
    that were in the garden of God.