Devine Scripture

Ezekiel 31:8

Ezekiel chapter 31 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide 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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

Context

v.7Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

v.8This passage

v.9I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 2:8

    And Jehovah God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

  • Isaiah 37:11

    Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

  • Genesis 13:10

    And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.

  • Ezekiel 28:13

    Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.

  • Psalms 37:35

    I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

  • Isaiah 51:3

    For Jehovah hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her waste places, and hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Jehovah; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.