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(Ezekiel 31:3-9 KJV)
Behold, the
Assyrian
was
a cedar in Lebanon
with fair branches,
and with a
shadowing
shroud, and of an high stature; and
his top
was among the
thick boughs. The
waters made him great, the deep
set him up on high
with her rivers running round
about his
plants,
and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the
field. Therefore his height
was exalted above all the trees of the field, and
his boughs were multiplied, and his branches
became long because of the
multitude of waters,
when he shot forth. All the fowls of heaven made their
nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field
bring forth their young, and
under his shadow dwelt all great nations. Thus was
he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his
root was by
great waters.
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him:
the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his
branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his
beauty. I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all
the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God,
envied him.
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