Ezekiel 31:9 - Forerunner Commentary

Ezekiel 31:9

7 ‘Thus it was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches,
Because its roots reached to abundant waters.

8 The cedars in the ^agarden of God could not hide it;
The fir trees were not like its boughs,
And the¹ chestnut trees were not like its branches;
No tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

9 I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches,
So that all the trees of Eden envied it,
That were in the garden of God.’

10 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: ‘Because you have increased in height, and it set its top among the thick boughs, and ^aits heart was lifted up in its height,

11 therefore I will deliver it into the hand of the ^amighty one of the nations, and he shall surely deal with it; I have driven it out for its wickedness.

12 And aliens, ^athe most terrible of the nations, have cut it down and left it; its branches have fallen ^bon the mountains and in all the valleys; its boughs lie ^cbroken by all the rivers of the land; and all the peoples of the earth have gone from under its shadow and left it.

13 ‘On ^aits ruin will remain all the birds of the heavens,
And all the beasts of the field will come to its branches—

Verse Comparison: Ezekiel 31:9

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American Standard Version
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.

Amplified® Bible
I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it [Assyria].

Contemporary English Version
I, the LORD, gave this tree its beauty, and I helped the branches grow strong. All other trees in Eden wanted to be just like it.

Darby English Version
I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Good News Bible
I made it beautiful, with spreading branches. It was the envy of every tree in Eden, the garden of God.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
`I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.

New International Version
I made it beautiful
with abundant branches,
the envy of all the trees of Eden
in the garden of God.

New King James Version
I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches,
So that all the trees of Eden envied it,
That were in the garden of God.’

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of Eden, which grew in the garden of God, became jealous of it.

Revised Standard Version
I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.

Young's Literal Translation
Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that `are' in the garden of God.

New English Translation
I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

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