Ezekiel 31:3-5

GOD’S WORD Translation

³ What about Assyria?
It was a cedar in Lebanon
with fine branches that shaded the forest.
It was very tall.
Its top was among the clouds.
⁴ Water made the tree grow,
and underground springs made it tall.
Rivers flowed around the place where the tree was planted.
Streams ran beside all the other trees around it.
⁵ That is why it grew taller than all the other trees in the field.
Its branches became large and long because of so much water.