Ezekiel 31:3-9

3Behold, Assyria was a 1cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade, And 23very high, And its top was among the 4clouds.4The 5waters made it grow, the 6deep made it high. With its rivers it continually 7extended all around its planting place, And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.5Therefore 8its height was loftier than all the trees of the field And its boughs became many and its branches long Because of 9many waters 10as it spread them out.6All the 11birds of the heavens nested in its boughs, And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth, And all great nations lived under its shade.7So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; For its 12roots extended to many waters.8The 13cedars in 14God’s garden 15could not match it; The 16cypresses 17could not compare with its boughs, And the plane trees 18could not match its branches. No tree in 19God’s garden 20could compare with it in its beauty.9I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of 21Eden, which were in the 22garden of God, were jealous of it.