Thomson(i)
3 Lo to Assur! he was a cypress on Libanus. Beautiful with branches and lofty in stature. His top was among the clouds.
4 Water nourished him. The deep made him lofty. It brought its streams about his roots, and sent forth its rills to all the trees of the plain.
5 By reason of this he was exalted in greatness above all the trees of the plain, and by the plentiful supply of water his branches spread.
6 Among his boughs all the birds of the air built their nests; and under his branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; and all the multitude of nations dwelt in its shade.
7 He was beautiful in his height by the multitude of his branches, because his roots shot out into abundance of water.
8 Even the cypresses such as were in the paradise of God and the pines were not to be compared with his shoots, nor were the fir trees comparable to his branches. Not a tree in the garden of God was equal to him in beauty,
9 on the account of the multitude of his branches; therefore, the trees of God's delicious paradise envied him on that account.
10 But thus saith the Lord, Because thou wast of great magnitude, therefore thou hast shot up thy top among the clouds. Now when I saw that he was lifted up,
11 I delivered him into the hands of the chief of nations, who accomplished his destruction.
12 Strangers, merciless ravagers from nations destroyed him. They felled him on the mountains and his branches fell in all the vallies, and his shoots were trampled down in every field of the earth; and all the tribes of the nations came down from their shade, and levelled him to the ground.