7. It was majestic in beauty, with its spreading boughs, for its roots went down to abundant waters.
8. The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor could the junipers equal its boughs, nor could the plane trees compare with its branches— no tree in the garden of God could match its beauty.
9. I made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God.
10. “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because the great cedar towered over the thick foliage, and because it was proud of its height,
11. I gave it into the hands of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside,