Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
³ Behold,
the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon
with fair branches,
and with a shadowing shroud,
and of an high stature;
and his top was among the thick boughs.
⁴ The waters made him great,
the deep set him up on high
with her rivers running round about his plants,
and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

⁵ Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field,
and his boughs were multiplied,
and his branches became long
because of the multitude of waters,
when he shot forth.
⁶ All the fowls of heaven
made their nests in his boughs,
and under his branches
did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young,
and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

⁷ Thus was he fair in his greatness,
in the length of his branches:
for his root was by great waters.
⁸ The cedars in the garden of God
could not hide him [match him]:
the fir trees were not like his boughs,
and the chesnut trees were not like his branches;
nor any tree in the garden of God
was like unto him in his beauty.
⁹ I have made him fair
by the multitude of his branches:
so that all the trees of Eden,
that were in the garden of God,
envied him.