Ezekiel 31:3-14

3Behold, aAssyria was a bcedar in cLebanon,
with beautiful branches and dforest shade,
eand of towering height,
its top among the clouds.
Or  its top went through the thick boughs; also verses 10, 14

4The waters nourished it;
the deep made it grow tall,
making gits rivers flow
around the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
to all the trees of the field.
5So hit towered high
above all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large
and its branches long
from iabundant water in its shoots.
6 jAll 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.
7It was kbeautiful in its greatness,
in the length of its branches;
lfor its roots went down
to abundant waters.
8 mThe cedars nin 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 oin the garden of God
was its equal in beauty.
9I made it beautiful
in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of pEden envied it,
that were in the garden of God.
10Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because qit
Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew you
towered high and set its top among the clouds, and sits heart was proud of its height,
11I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out. 12 tForeigners, uthe most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. vOn the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all wthe ravines of the land, and xall the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. 13 yOn its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. 14 zAll this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, aato the world abbelow, among the children of man,
Or  of Adam
with those who go down to the pit.

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