Yechezkel 31:1-9 יחזקאל ל״א:א׳-ט׳

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Son of man, speak to Par῾o king of Miżrayim, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

Behold, Ashshur was a cedar in the Levanon with fair branches, amid a shadowing forest, and of a high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high, with her rivers running round about her plants, and she sent out her little canals to all the trees of the field.

Therefore its height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when it shot them forth.

All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs, and under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young, and under its shadow all great nations dwelt.

Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches: for its root was by many waters.

The cedars in the garden of God could not obscure it: the cypress trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not like its branches; nor did any tree in the garden of God compare with it in beauty.

I have made it fair by the multitude of its branches: so that all the trees of ῾Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.