Ezekiel 31:3

The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will lop off the boughs with a terrible crash; Those also who are high in stature will be cut in pieces And those who are lofty will be made low.

“And he will be like a tree planted by the water, That sends forth its roots by a stream And will not fear when the heat comes; But its leaves will be green, And it will not be anxious in a year of drought Nor refrain from yielding fruit.

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

‘And it had strong thick branches fit for scepters of rulers, And its height was exalted above the clouds So that it was seen in its exaltedness with the mass of its foliage.

“Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt and prophesy against him and against all Egypt.

‘The cedars in God’s garden could not match it; The cypresses could not liken themselves with its boughs, And the plane trees were not like its branches. No tree in God’s garden could liken itself with it in its beauty.

“They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.

“Assyria is there and all her assembly; her graves are round about her. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword,

‘Now these were the visions in my head as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.

Open your doors, O Lebanon, That a fire may consume your cedars.