³ Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: A great eagle^(A) with powerful wings, long feathers and full plumage of varied colors came to Lebanon.^(B) Taking hold of the top of a cedar, ⁴ he broke off^(C) its topmost shoot and carried it away to a land of merchants, where he planted it in a city of traders.

²² “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will take a shoot^(A) from the very top of a cedar and plant it; I will break off a tender sprig from its topmost shoots and plant it on a high and lofty mountain.^(B)

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)