Ezekiel 31:8 “The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses coul…”

Ezekiel 31:8

The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare with its branches, nor the plane trees match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its branches. The pine trees were not like its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie.

Darby Translation

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the cypresses were not like his boughs, and the plane-trees were not as his branches: no tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

Young's Literal Translation

Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,

Bible in Basic English

No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.

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Cross references

“cedars”

Ezekiel 28:13 Genesis 13:10 Psalm 80:10 Isaiah 51:3 Genesis 2:8

Ezekiel 28:13 · BSB

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepar…

Genesis 13:10 · BSB

And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Psalm 80:10 · BSB

The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.

Isaiah 51:3 · BSB

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and mel…

Genesis 2:8 · BSB

And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

“nor any”

Psalm 37:35 Isaiah 10:7–14 Isaiah 36:4–18 Isaiah 37:11–13

Psalm 37:35 · BSB

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Isaiah 10:7–14 · BSB

But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.

Isaiah 36:4–18 · BSB

The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

Isaiah 37:11–13 · BSB

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?

Also

Ezekiel 31:16 Ezekiel 31:18

Ezekiel 31:16 · BSB

I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consol…

Ezekiel 31:18 · BSB

Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sw…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant waters.

9I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.’

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