8. No other cedar in the garden of Godcould rival it.No cypress had branches to equal it;no plane tree had boughs to compare.No tree in the garden of Godcame close to it in beauty.
9. Because I made this tree so beautiful,and gave it such magnificent foliage,it was the envy of all the other trees of Eden,the garden of God.
10. “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign lord says: Because Egypt became proud and arrogant, and because it set itself so high above the others, with its top reaching to the clouds,
11. I will hand it over to a mighty nation that will destroy it as its wickedness deserves. I have already discarded it.
12. A foreign army—the terror of the nations—has cut it down and left it fallen on the ground. Its branches are scattered across the mountains and valleys and ravines of the land. All those who lived in its shadow have gone away and left it lying there.
13. “The birds roost on its fallen trunk,and the wild animals lie among its branches.
14. Let the tree of no other nationproudly exult in its own prosperity,though it be higher than the cloudsand it be watered from the depths.For all are doomed to die,to go down to the depths of the earth.They will land in the pitalong with everyone else on earth.
15. “This is what the Sovereign lord says: When Assyria went down to the grave, I made the deep springs mourn. I stopped its rivers and dried up its abundant water. I clothed Lebanon in black and caused the trees of the field to wilt.