Ezekiel 31:3-9

3You are like mighty Assyria, which was once like a cedar of Lebanon, with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shade and with its top high among the clouds.

4Deep springs watered it and helped it to grow tall and luxuriant. The water flowed around it like a river, streaming to all the trees nearby.

5This great tree towered high, higher than all the other trees around it. It prospered and grew long thick branches because of all the water at its roots.

6The birds nested in its branches, and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth. All the great nations of the world lived in its shadow.

7It was strong and beautiful, with wide-spreading branches, for its roots went deep into abundant water.

8No other cedar in the garden of God could rival it. No cypress had branches to equal it; no plane tree had boughs to compare. No tree in the garden of God came close to it in beauty.

9Because I made this tree so beautiful, and gave it such magnificent foliage, it was the envy of all the other trees of Eden, the garden of God.