Ezekiel

⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,nor could the fir trees match its boughs;the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty. ⁹I made it beautiful with its many branches;all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it. ¹⁰“‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height, ¹¹I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly, as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out. ¹²Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land have departed from its shade and left it. ¹³On its ruins all the birds of the sky will live, and all the wild animals will walk on its branches. ¹⁴For this reason no watered trees will grow so tall; their tops will not reach into the clouds, nor will the well-watered ones grow that high. For all of them have been appointed to die in the lower parts of the earth; they will be among mere mortals, with those who descend to the pit.