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-'Behold, Assyria was a ^(C1)cedar in Lebanon With beautiful branches and forest shade, And ^(F1)(C2)very high, And its top was among the ^(F2)clouds.

-'The ^(C1)waters made it grow, the ^(F1)deep made it high. With its rivers it continually ^(F2)extended all around its planting place, And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

-'Therefore ^(C1)its height was loftier than all the trees of the field And its boughs became many and its branches long Because of ^(C2)many waters ^(F1)as it spread them out.

-'All the ^(C1)birds of the sky nested in its twigs, And under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth, And all great nations lived under its shade.

-'So it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; For its ^(F1)roots extended to many waters.

-'The ^(C1)cedars in ^(C2)God's garden ^(F1)could not match it; The junipers ^(F1)could not compare with its branches, And the plane trees ^(F2)could not match its branches. No tree in ^(C2)God's garden ^(F1)could compare with it in its beauty.

-'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of ^(C1)Eden, which were in the ^(C1)garden of God, were jealous of it.

'Therefore this is what the Lord ^(F1)GOD says: "Because ^(F2)it is tall in stature and has put its top among the ^(F3)clouds, and its ^(C1)heart is haughty in its loftiness,

I will hand it over to a ^(F1)(C1)ruler of the nations; he will thoroughly deal with it. In accordance with its wickedness I have ^(C2)driven it out.

"^(C1)Foreign ^(C2)tyrants of the nations have cut it down and left it; on the ^(C3)mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its branches have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have ^(C4)gone down from its shade and left it.

"All the ^(C1)birds of the sky will nest on its fallen trunk, and all the animals of the field will ^(F1)rest on its fallen branches,

so that all the trees by the waters will not be exalted in their stature, nor put their tops among the ^(F1)clouds, nor will any of their ^(F2)well-watered mighty ones stand straight in their height. For they have all been turned over to death, to the ^(C1)earth beneath, among ^(F3)mankind, ^(F4)with those who go down to the pit."