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    All the birds of the air built their nests in its strong limbs;
        all the wild beasts of the earth gave birth beneath its mighty branches;
        all the great nations flourished in its long shadow.
    It was magnificent in its beauty,
        grand in its form, and long in its branches;
    For its roots grew deep and tapped the sources of many waters.
    No cedar trees in God’s garden could rival it;
        no junipers could grow as many boughs;
        no oriental plane trees could match its many branches;
    No trees in God’s garden could rival its magnificent 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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