The Parable of the Mighty Cedar
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And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the thirdmonth, in the firstdayof the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
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Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
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The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field.
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Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot them forth.
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All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.
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Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
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The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.
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I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.
Bible text: American Standard Version (1901) · Public domain