7 It became beautiful in its greatness and in its lush foliage,because it took root in plentiful water.
8 No cedar was its equal in God’s garden.The fir trees didn’t have anything like its branches,and the plane trees had nothing like its boughs.None of the trees in God’s garden could compare to it in its beauty.
9 As for its beauty—I made it so, with its abundant foliage.All the trees of Eden envied it,all that were in God’s garden.
10 So now the Lord God proclaims:Consider the fate of those who tower high!When it allowed its branches to reach up among the clouds,it became arrogant.
11 So I handed it overto the most powerful nation,who continually acted treacherously against it.I banished it!
12 Foreigners, the worst of the nations, cut it downand left it to lie among the hills.All its branches fell among the valleys,and its boughs were broken off in the earth’s deep ravines.All the earth’s peoples departed from its shade and abandoned it.
13 On its trunk roost all the birds in the sky,and on its boughs lie all the beasts of the field.