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Ezekiel 31:8-10
International Standard Version
Ezekiel 31:8-10
International Standard Version
8 The cedars in God’s garden could not compare to it;
Fir trees could not match its boughs.
The plane tree[a] 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!’”
Assyria’s Fall Due to Arrogance
10 “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,[b]
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- Ezekiel 31:8 I.e., a species of trees that could readily be stripped of their bark; cf. Gen 30:37
- Ezekiel 31:10 Lit. heart
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