3 You are like mighty Assyria,which was once like a cedar of Lebanon,with beautiful branches that cast deep forest shadeand with its top high among the clouds.
4 Deep springs watered itand helped it to grow tall and luxuriant.The water flowed around it like a river,streaming to all the trees nearby.
5 This great tree towered high,higher than all the other trees around it.It prospered and grew long thick branchesbecause of all the water at its roots.
6 The birds nested in its branches,and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth.All the great nations of the worldlived in its shadow.
7 It was strong and beautiful,with wide-spreading branches,for its roots went deepinto abundant water.
8 No other cedar in the garden of Godcould rival it.No cypress had branches to equal it;no plane tree had boughs to compare.No tree in the garden of Godcame close to it in beauty.
9 Because 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.