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The waters nourished it,
    the deep made it grow tall,
making its rivers flow[a]
    around the place where it was planted,
sending forth its streams
    to all the trees of the field.
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.
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.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 31:4 Gk: Heb rivers going

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