Behold, Assyria was like a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with thick shadowing boughs, and shot up very high, and his top was among the thick boughs.

The waters nourished him, and the deep exalted him on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her [a]little rivers unto all the trees of the [b]field.

Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deep sent out.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:4 Many other nations were under their dominion.
  2. Ezekiel 31:4 Or, country.

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