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Ezekiel 31:9

Ezekiel chapter 31 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I 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.

Context

v.8The 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.

v.9This passage

v.10Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Cross references

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

  • Daniel 2:37

    Thou, O king, art king of kings, unto whom the God of heaven hath given the kingdom, the power, and the strength, and the glory;

  • Ecclesiastes 4:4

    Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Zechariah 11:2

    Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.

  • Daniel 5:20

    But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

  • 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.

  • James 4:5

    Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?