Ezekiel 31:1-9
English Standard Version
Chapter 31
1In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2"Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: "Whom are you like in your greatness?
3Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and forest shade, and of towering height, its top among the clouds.
4The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, making its rivers flow around the place of its planting, sending forth its streams to all the trees of the field.
5So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long from abundant water in its shoots.
6 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.
7It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down to abundant waters.
8 The cedars 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 in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.
9I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.
