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Behold ,
I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon ,
with fair branches and forest shade ,
and of great height ,
its top among the clouds .
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The waters nourished it ,
the deep made it grow tall ,
making its rivers flow round the place of its planting ,
sending forth its streams to all the trees of the forest .
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So it towered high above all the trees of the forest ;
its boughs grew large and its branches long ,
from abundant water in its shoots .
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All the birds of the air made their nests in its boughs ;
under its branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young ;
and under its shadow dwelt all great nations .
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It was beautiful in its greatness ,
in the length of its branches ;
for its roots went down to abundant waters .
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The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it ,
nor the fir trees equal its boughs ;
the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches ;
no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty .
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I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches ,
and all the trees of Eden envied it ,
that were in the garden of God .
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Therefore thus says the Lord GOD :
Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds ,
and its heart was proud of its height ,
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I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations ;
he shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves .
I have cast it out .
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Foreigners ,
the most terrible of the nations ,
will cut it down and leave it .
On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches will fall ,
and its boughs will lie broken in all the watercourses of the land ;
and all the peoples of the earth will go from its shadow and leave it .
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Upon its ruin will dwell all the birds of the air ,
and upon its branches will be all the beasts of the field .