Ezekiel 31:3-12 Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Behold, the Assyrian like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs. ⁴ The waters nourished him, the deep set him tip on high, the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent, forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country. ⁵ Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the country and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated because of many waters. ⁶ And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow. ⁷ And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters. ⁸ The cedars in the paradise of God were not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty. ⁹ For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him. ¹⁰ Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because he was exalted in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up in his height: ¹¹ I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his wickedness. ¹² And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.