6. Every kind of bird built nests in its branches;The wild animals bore their young in its shelter;The nations of the world rested in its shade.
7. How beautiful the tree was —So tall, with such long branches.Its roots reached down to the deep-flowing streams.
8. No cedar in God's garden could compare with it.No fir tree ever had such branches,And no plane tree such boughs.No tree in God's own garden was so beautiful.
9. I made it beautiful, with spreading branches.It was the envy of every tree in Eden, the garden of God.
10. “Now then, I, the Sovereign Lord, will tell you what is going to happen to that tree that grew until it reached the clouds. As it grew taller it grew proud;
11. so I have rejected it and will let a foreign ruler have it. He will give that tree what it deserves for its wickedness.
12. Ruthless foreigners will cut it down and leave it. Its branches and broken boughs will fall on every mountain and valley in the country. All the nations that have been living in its shade will go away.
13. The birds will come and perch on the fallen tree, and the wild animals will walk over its branches.