(A)Indeed Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon,
With fine branches that shaded the forest,
And of high stature;
And its top was among the thick boughs.

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Consider Assyria,(A) once a cedar in Lebanon,(B)
    with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;
it towered on high,
    its top above the thick foliage.(C)

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16 I made the nations (A)shake at the sound of its fall, when I (B)cast it down to [a]hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and (C)all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, (D)were comforted in the depths of the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:16 Or Sheol

16 I made the nations tremble(A) at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees(B) of Eden,(C) the choicest and best of Lebanon, the well-watered trees, were consoled(D) in the earth below.(E)

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