^8 (A)The cedars ^(B)in the garden of God could not rival it,
    nor the fir trees equal its boughs;
neither were the plane trees
    like its branches;
no tree ^(C)in the garden of God
    was its equal in beauty.
⁹ I made it beautiful
    in the mass of its branches,
and all the trees of ^(D)Eden envied it,
    that were in the garden of God.

³ For the Lord ^(A)comforts Zion;
    he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like ^(B)Eden,
    her desert like ^(C)the garden of the Lord;
^(D)joy and gladness will be found in her,
    thanksgiving and the voice of song.