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‘Beautiful because it was so great,
    with its long branches,
        it was rooted in many bodies of water.[a]
The cedars in God’s garden could not compare to it;
    Fir trees could not match its boughs.
The plane tree[b] never grew branches like it,
    and no tree in God’s garden compares to its beauty.
I made it beautiful,
    including all of its branches;
all the trees in God’s garden of Eden envied it!’”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:7 Lit. many waters
  2. Ezekiel 31:8 I.e., a species of trees that could readily be stripped of their bark; cf. Gen 30:37