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'The waters made it grow, the deepmade it high. With its rivers it continually extendedallaround its plantingplace, And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
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'Therefore* its height was loftierthanall the trees of the field And its boughsbecamemany and its brancheslongBecause of manywaters as it spread them out.
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'All the birds of the heavensnested in its boughs, And under its branchesall the beasts of the fieldgavebirth, And allgreatnationslived under its shade.
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'The cedars in God'sgarden could not match it; The cypresses could not compare with its boughs, And the planetrees could not match its branches. No*tree in God'sgarden could compare with it in its beauty.
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therefore I will give it into the hand of a despot of the nations; he will thoroughlydeal with it. According to its wickedness I have driven it away.
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"Alientyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have gonedown from its shade and left it.
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so that all the trees by the waters may not be exalted in their stature, norset their topamong the clouds, nor their well-wateredmighty ones stand erect in their height. For they have all been given over to death, to the earthbeneath, among the sons of men, with those who godown to the pit."
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'Thussays the LordGOD, "On the day when it wentdown to Sheol I causedlamentations; I closed the deepover it and heldback its rivers. And its manywaters were stopped up, and I made Lebanonmourn for it, and all the trees of the fieldwiltedaway on account of it.
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"I made the nationsquake at the sound of its fall when I made it godown to Sheol with those who godown to the pit; and all the well-wateredtrees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earthbeneath.
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"To which among the trees of Eden are you thusequal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be broughtdown with the trees of Eden to the earthbeneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!"' declares the LordGOD."