Ezekiel 31:3-12 Think about Assyria, that cedar of Lebanon, beautiful with its branches, like a shady forest, with an awesome height, its summit touches the clouds.

ISV⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Think about Assyria, that cedar of Lebanon, beautiful with its branches, like a shady forest, with an awesome height, its summit touches the clouds. ⁴ Abundant water made it great, Subterranean rivers made it grow. Rivers surrounded the area where it had been planted, and water channels nourished all the trees in the fields. ⁵ That’s why it grew taller than any of the trees in the fields. Its boughs flourished. Its branches grew luxurious because all the water made it spread out well. ⁶ The birds in the sky made nests in its boughs; all the beasts of the field gave birth under its branches. All the great nations rested in its shade. ⁷ ‘Beautiful because it was so great, with its long branches, it was rooted in many bodies of water. ⁸ The cedars in God’s garden could not compare to it; Fir trees could not match its boughs. The plane tree never grew branches like it, and no tree in God’s garden compares to its beauty. ⁹ I made it beautiful, including all of its branches; all the trees in God’s garden of Eden envied it!’”
¹⁰ Assyria’s Fall Due to Arrogance“Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because of its towering height, with its summit reaching into the clouds, and because it was haughty in its position, ¹¹ I turned it over to the leader of those nations, who dealt with it thoroughly. I have driven it away because of its wickedness. ¹² Foreign dictators have trimmed it down to size and abandoned it. Its branches have fallen off on mountains and in all the valleys. Its boughs have broken off in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth have moved out of its shade and abandoned it.