Ezekiel 31:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds.

Cross References

Psalm 92:12

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Isaiah 37:24

By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.

Jeremiah 17:8

They shall be like a tree planted by water, sending out its roots by the stream. It shall not fear when heat comes, and its leaves shall stay green; in the year of drought it is not anxious, and it does not cease to bear fruit.

Jeremiah 50:18

Therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.

Ezekiel 17:22

Thus says the Lord God: I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender shoot from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will transplant it on a high and lofty mountain.

Ezekiel 19:11

Its strongest stem became a ruler’s scepter; it towered aloft among the clouds; it stood out in its height with its mass of branches.

Ezekiel 31:10

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds and its heart was proud of its height,

Ezekiel 31:16

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the Pit, and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that were well watered, were consoled in the world below.

Ezekiel 31:17

They also went down to Sheol with it, to those killed by the sword, along with its allies, those who lived in its shade among the nations.

Ezekiel 31:5

So it towered high above all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches long, from abundant water in its shoots.

Ezekiel 31:6

All the birds of the air made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth to their young, and in its shade all great nations lived.

Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it nor the fir trees equal its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared with its branches; no tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

Ezekiel 32:22

Assyria is there and all its company, their graves all around it, all of them killed, fallen by the sword.

Daniel 4:10

Upon my bed this is what I saw: there was a tree at the center of the earth, and its height was great.

Daniel 4:12

Its foliage was beautiful, its fruit abundant, and it provided food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it, the birds of the air nested in its branches, and from it all living beings were fed.

Daniel 4:7

Then the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners came in, and I told them the dream, but they could not tell me its interpretation.

Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.

Zechariah 11:1

Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire may devour your cedars!

Zechariah 11:2

Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!

Judges 9:15

And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’