8 ‘Cedars in the garden of Elohim did not hide it, fir trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like its branches. No tree in the garden of Elohim was as pretty as it.
9 ‘I made it pretty by its many branches, so that all the trees of Ěḏen which were in the garden of Elohim were jealous of it.’
10 “Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Because you have increased in height, and it set its top among the thick foliage, and its heart was lifted up in its height,
11 ‘I give it into the hand of the mighty one of the nations, and he shall certainly deal with it. I have driven it out for its wrong.
12 ‘And foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, shall cut it down and leave it. Its branches shall fall on the mountains and in all the valleys, its boughs lie broken by all the rivers of the land. And all the peoples of the earth shall come out from under its shadow and leave it.
13 ‘On its ruin shall dwell all the birds of the heavens, and all the beasts of the field shall be on its fallen branches,
14 so that none of the trees by the waters would exalt themselves because of their height, nor set their tops among the thick foliage, and that no tree which drinks water would ever be high enough to reach up to them. ‘For all of them shall be given up to death, to the depths of the earth, among the children of men who go down to the Pit.’