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22 Thus says the Lord God: (A)“I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. (B)I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and (C)I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

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    Behold, (A)Assyria was a (B)cedar in (C)Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and (D)forest shade,
    (E)and of towering height,
    its top among the clouds.[a]
The waters nourished it;
    the deep made it grow tall,
making (F)its rivers flow
    around the place of its planting,
sending forth its streams
    to all the trees of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:3 Or its top went through the thick boughs; also verses 10, 14

10 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because (A)it[a] towered high and set its top among the clouds, and (B)its heart was proud of its height,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:10 Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew you