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And such cypresses were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,
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because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God's paradise of delight envied him.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou art grown great, and hast set thy top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;
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therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.
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And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.