Ezekiel 31:3-9

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‘Behold, Assyria was a ^(A)cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And ^(a)^(B)very high,
And its top was among the ^(b)clouds.

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‘The ^(C)waters made it grow, the ^(c)deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually ^(d)extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

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‘Therefore ^(D)its height was loftier than all the trees of the field
And its boughs became many and its branches long
Because of ^(E)many waters ^(e)as it spread them out.

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‘All the ^(F)birds 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.

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‘So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches;
For its ^(f)roots extended to many waters.

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‘The ^(G)cedars in ^(H)God’s garden ^(g)could not match it;
The ^(h)cypresses ⁽ⁱ⁾could not compare with its boughs,
And the plane trees ^(j)could not match its branches.
No tree in ^(I)God’s garden ^(k)could compare with it in its beauty.

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‘I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches,
And all the trees of ^(J)Eden, which were in the ^(K)garden of God, were jealous of it.

Footnotes:

a. Ezekiel 31:3: ['Lit ', high of stature]

b. Ezekiel 31:3: ['So Gr; M.T. ', thick boughs]

c. Ezekiel 31:4: ['I.e. subterranean waters']

d. Ezekiel 31:4: ['Lit ', was going]

e. Ezekiel 31:5: ['Lit ', in its sending forth]

f. Ezekiel 31:7: ['Lit ', root was]

g. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Lit ', did]

h. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Or ', Phoenician junipers]

i. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Lit ', did]

j. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Lit ', were not like]

k. Ezekiel 31:8: ['Lit ', did]

Cross references:

A. Ezekiel 31:3: Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 10:34; Ezekiel 17:3; Ezekiel 17:4; Ezekiel 17:22; Ezekiel 31:16; Daniel 4:10; Daniel 4:20-23

B. Ezekiel 31:3: Isaiah 10:33; Ezekiel 31:5; Ezekiel 31:10

C. Ezekiel 31:4: Ezekiel 17:5; Ezekiel 17:8; Revelation 17:1; Revelation 17:15

D. Ezekiel 31:5: Daniel 4:11

E. Ezekiel 31:5: Psalm 1:3; Ezekiel 17:5

F. Ezekiel 31:6: Ezekiel 17:23; Ezekiel 31:13; Daniel 4:12; Daniel 4:21; Matthew 13:32

G. Ezekiel 31:8: Psalm 80:10; Ezekiel 31:3

H. Ezekiel 31:8: Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 31:18

I. Ezekiel 31:8: Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 31:18

J. Ezekiel 31:9: Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 31:18

K. Ezekiel 31:9: Genesis 2:8; Genesis 2:9; Genesis 13:10; Isaiah 51:3; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 31:16; Ezekiel 31:18