Ezekiel 31:4

World English Bible (2000)

The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

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  • Ezek 17:5 : 5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.
  • Ezek 17:8 : 8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
  • Rev 17:1 : 1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,
  • Rev 17:15 : 15 He said to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
  • Prov 14:28 : 28 In the multitude of people is the king's glory, but in the lack of people is the destruction of the prince.
  • Jer 51:36 : 36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

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  • Ezek 31:5-10
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    5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.

    6All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the animals of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow lived all great nations.

    7Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

    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 it in its beauty.

    9I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

    10Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

  • Ezek 31:3
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    3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

  • Ezek 31:12-16
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    12Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

    13On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

    14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

    15Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

    16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

  • Num 24:6-7
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    6As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

    7Water shall flow from his buckets. His seed shall be in many waters. His king shall be higher than Agag. His kingdom shall be exalted.

  • Ps 80:9-11
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    9You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

    10The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

    11It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

  • Ps 104:16
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    16Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

  • Dan 4:11-12
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    11The tree grew, and was strong, and its height reached to the sky, and its sight to the end of all the earth.

    12The leaves of it were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all: the animals of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the sky lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.

  • Ezek 17:4-9
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    4he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

    5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.

    6It grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

    7There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

    8It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

    9Say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up its roots, and cut off its fruit, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or many people can it be raised from its roots.

  • Isa 44:14
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    14He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

  • Job 40:21-22
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    21He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

    22The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

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    10Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

    11It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

  • Job 14:8-9
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    8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

    9yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

  • Dan 4:20-21
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    20The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;

    21whose leaves were beautiful, and its fruit much, and in it was food for all; under which the animals of the field lived, and on whose branches the birds of the sky had their habitation:

  • Jer 17:8
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    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

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    19My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

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    6I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

  • Ezek 17:23-24
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    23in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of its branches shall they dwell.

    24All the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.

  • Ps 148:9
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    9mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;

  • Isa 8:7
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    7now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

  • Nah 1:4
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    4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.

  • Hos 14:6
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    6His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

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    3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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    13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

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    4and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

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    10A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

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    8Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."

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    25I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt."