Ezekiel 31:1-9

31¹ Now it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² "Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: 'Whom are you like in your greatness? ³ Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, With fine branches that shaded the forest, And of high stature; And its top was among the thick boughs. ⁴ The waters made it grow; Underground waters gave it height, With their rivers running around the place where it was planted, And sent out rivulets to all the trees of the field. ⁵ 'Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field; Its boughs were multiplied, And its branches became long because of the abundance of water, As it sent them out. ⁶ All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; Under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; And in its shadow all great nations made their home. ⁷ 'Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, Because its roots reached to abundant waters. ⁸ The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; The fir trees were not like its boughs, And the chestnut trees were not like its branches; No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty. ⁹ I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches, So that all the trees of Eden envied it, That were in the garden of God.'