Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

(EZE 31:3)

The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

(EZE 31:4)

Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

(EZE 31:5)

All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

(EZE 31:6)

Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

(EZE 31:7)

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

(EZE 31:8)

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

(EZE 31:9)