Holy Scripture
Ezekiel 31:9
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 35, 36, and following) And I will bring you into a desert of peoples, and there I will judge you face to face. Just as I contended with your fathers in the desert of the land of Egypt, so I will judge you, says the Lord. And I will subject you to my scepter, and I will bring you into the bonds of the covenant,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God’s paradise of delight envied him.
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In context
7And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches: for his roots were amidst much water.
8And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,
— Ezekiel 31:9 —
10Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou art grown great, and hast set thy top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;
11therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.