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All the birds in the sky
    made their nests in its limbs.
All the wild animals
    had their babies under its branches.
All the great nations
    lived in its shade.
Its spreading branches
    made it majestic and beautiful.
Its roots went down deep
    to where there was plenty of water.
The cedar trees in my garden
    were no match for it.
The juniper trees
    could not equal its limbs.
The plane trees
    could not compare with its branches.
No tree in my garden
    could match its beauty.

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All the birds of the sky
    nested in its boughs,
all the animals of the wild
    gave birth(A) under its branches;
all the great nations
    lived in its shade.(B)
It was majestic in beauty,
    with its spreading boughs,
for its roots went down
    to abundant waters.(C)
The cedars(D) in the garden of God
    could not rival it,
nor could the junipers
    equal its boughs,
nor could the plane trees(E)
    compare with its branches—
no tree in the garden of God
    could match its beauty.(F)

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