CLV(i)
3 Lo, Asshur, a cedar in Lebanon, Fair in branch, and shading bough, and high in stature, And between thickets has its foliage been."
4 Waters have made it great, The deep has exalted him with its flowings, Going round about its planting, And its conduits it has sent forth unto all trees of the field."
5 Therefore higher has been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,
6 In his boughs made a nest has every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth has every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations."
7 And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root has been by great waters."
8 Cedars have not hid him in the garden of Elohim, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of Elohim has been like unto him in his beauty,
9 Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that [are] in the garden of Elohim."
10 Therefore, thus said the Lord Yahweh:Because that you have been high in stature, And he yields his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,
11 I give him into the hand of an el of nations, He deals sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out."
12 And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him."
13 On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field,