Ezekiel 31:3–10

³Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon,

with beautiful branches that shaded the forest.

It towered on high;

its top was among the clouds.

⁴The waters made it grow;

the deep springs made it tall,

directing their streams all around its base

and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.

⁵Therefore it towered higher

than all the trees of the field.

Its branches multiplied,

and its boughs grew long

as it spread them out

because of the abundant waters.

⁶All the birds of the air

nested in its branches,

and all the beasts of the field

gave birth beneath its boughs;

all the great nations

lived in its shade.

⁷It was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its limbs,

for its roots extended

to abundant waters.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God

could not rival it;

the cypresses^a could not compare with its branches,

nor the plane trees^b match its boughs.

No tree in the garden of God

could compare with its beauty.

⁹I made it beautiful with its many branches,

the envy of all the trees of Eden,

which were in the garden of God.’

¹⁰Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great^c in height and set its top among the clouds,^d and it grew proud on account of its height,