Ezekiel 31:1-9

International Children’s Bible

‘No one was like you in your greatness.
³ Assyria was once like a cedar tree in Lebanon.
    It had beautiful branches that shaded the forest.
It was very tall.
    Its top was among the clouds.
⁴ Much water made the tree grow.
    The deep springs of water made the tree tall.
Rivers flowed
    around the bottom of the tree.
They sent their streams
    to all other trees of the field.
⁵ So the tree was taller
    than all the other trees of the field.
Its branches became long and big
    because of so much water.
⁶ All the birds of the sky
    made their nests in the tree’s branches.
And all the wild animals
    gave birth under the tree’s branches.
All great nations
    lived in the tree’s shade.
⁷ So the tree was great and beautiful,
    with its long branches.
    Its roots reached down to many waters.
⁸ The cedar trees in the garden of God
    were not as great as it was.
The pine trees
    did not have such great branches.
The plane trees
    did not have such branches.
No tree in the garden of God
    was as beautiful as this tree.
⁹ I made it beautiful
    with many branches.
And all the trees of Eden in the garden of God
    wanted to be like it.