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Waters made it great,
    the deep made it grow high;
its rivers were going all around its planting area,[a]
    and its channels it sent out
    to all of the trees of the field.
Therefore it became tall,
    with its height more than all of the trees of the field,
and its branches became numerous,
    and its branches became long
    from its sending its shoots from abundant water.[b]
In its branches all the birds[c] of the heaven[d] made their nest,
    and under its branches all the animals[e] of the field gave birth,
    and in its shadow all the many nations lived.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:4 Literally “base of its tree”; NRSV, “in the place where it was planted”
  2. Ezekiel 31:5 Literally “from water much at sending shoots its”
  3. Ezekiel 31:6 Hebrew “bird”
  4. Ezekiel 31:6 Or “sky”
  5. Ezekiel 31:6 Hebrew “animal”