The Lord God planted a (A)garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

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Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden;(A) and there he put the man he had formed.

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Indeed, (A)the Lord will comfort Zion;
He will comfort all her (B)ruins.
And He will make her (C)wilderness like (D)Eden,
And her desert like the (E)garden of the Lord.
(F)Joy and gladness will be found in her,
Thanksgiving and the sound of a melody.

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The Lord will surely comfort(A) Zion(B)
    and will look with compassion on all her ruins;(C)
he will make her deserts like Eden,(D)
    her wastelands(E) like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness(F) will be found in her,
    thanksgiving(G) and the sound of singing.

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The (A)cedars in (B)God’s garden [a]could not match it;
The junipers [b]could not compare with its branches,
And the plane trees [c]could not match its branches.
No tree in (C)God’s garden [d]could compare with it in its beauty.
I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches,
And all the trees of (D)Eden, which were in the (E)garden of God, were jealous of it.

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  1. Ezekiel 31:8 Lit did
  2. Ezekiel 31:8 Lit did
  3. Ezekiel 31:8 Lit were not like
  4. Ezekiel 31:8 Lit did

The cedars(A) in the garden of God
    could not rival it,
nor could the junipers
    equal its boughs,
nor could the plane trees(B)
    compare with its branches—
no tree in the garden of God
    could match its beauty.(C)
I made it beautiful
    with abundant branches,
the envy of all the trees of Eden(D)
    in the garden of God.(E)

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16 I made the nations (A)quake from the sound of its fall when I made it (B)go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [a]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of (C)Lebanon, were (D)comforted in the earth beneath.

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  1. Ezekiel 31:16 Lit drinkers of water

16 I made the nations tremble(A) at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees(B) of Eden,(C) the choicest and best of Lebanon, the well-watered trees, were consoled(D) in the earth below.(E)

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35 And they will say, ‘This desolated land has become like the (A)Garden of Eden; and the waste, desolated and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.’

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35 They will say, “This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden;(A) the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited.(B)

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