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Ezekiel 31:8

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The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it.
The cypress trees were not like its boughs.
The pine trees were not as its branches;
nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

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Ezekiel 31:8 in other translations

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.

Ezekiel 31:8 · American Standard Version

Ezekiel 31:8 in context

  1. 6All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs.
    Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young.
    All great nations lived under its shadow.
  2. 7Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,
    in the length of its branches;
    for its root was by many waters.
  3. 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it.
    The cypress trees were not like its boughs.
    The pine trees were not as its branches;
    nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
  4. 9I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches,
    so that all the trees of Eden,
    that were in the garden of God, envied it.’
  5. 10“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;