Ezekiel 31:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³     Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon,
with fair branches and forest shade,
    and of great height,
    its top among the clouds.^[a]
4 The waters nourished it,
    the deep made it grow tall,
making its rivers flow^[b]
    around the place it was planted,
sending forth its streams
    to all the trees of the field.
⁵ So it towered high
    above all the trees of the field;
its boughs grew large
    and its branches long,
    from abundant water in its shoots.