Ezekiel 31:9

Bishop's Bible

I made him faire with the multitude of his braunches: insomuch that all the trees in the pleasaunt garden of God had enuie at hym.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I gave it many branches and made it beautiful. And all the trees in Eden, God's garden, were jealous!'"

New Living Translation
Because I made this tree so beautiful, and gave it such magnificent foliage, it was the envy of all the other trees of Eden, the garden of God.

New American Standard Bible
'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.

New Century Version
I made it beautiful with many branches, and all the trees of Eden in the garden of God wanted to be like it.

New English Translation
I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

Update Bible Version
I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of God, envied him.

Amplified Bible
'I made it beautiful with the great mass of its branches, So that all the trees of Eden which were in the garden of God were jealous of it (Assyria).

English Standard Version
I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.

World English Bible
I 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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For Y made hym fair, and with many and thicke boowis; and alle the trees of lust, that weren in the paradijs of God, hadden enuye to hym.

English Revised Version
I made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Berean Standard Bible
I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.'

Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord , gave this tree its beauty, and I helped the branches grow strong. All other trees in Eden wanted to be just like it.

American Standard Version
I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

Bible in Basic English
I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.

Complete Jewish Bible
I made it so beautiful, with its many branches; all trees in ‘Eden, God's garden, envied it.'

Darby Translation
I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I made it fair by the multitude of its branches; so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

King James Version (1611)
I haue made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

New Life Bible
I made it beautiful with its many branches. And all the trees that were in Eden were jealous of it.

New Revised Standard
I made it beautiful with its mass of branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

George Lamsa Translation
I 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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Beautiful, I made him in the abundance of his waving branches,- Therefore was be envied by all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him.

Revised Standard Version
I made it beautiful in the mass of its branches, and all the trees of Eden envied it, that were in the garden of God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God’s paradise of delight envied him.

Good News Translation
I made it beautiful, with spreading branches. It was the envy of every tree in Eden, the garden of God.

Christian Standard Bible®
I made it beautiful with its many limbs,and all the trees of Eden,which were in God’s garden, envied it.

Hebrew Names Version
I 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.

King James Version
I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

Lexham English Bible
I made it beautiful with the abundance of its branches, and all of the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it.'"

Literal Translation
I have made him beautiful by his many branches, and all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied him.

Young's Literal Translation
Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that [are] in the garden of God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so fayre and goodly had I made him with the multitude of his braunches: In so moch, yt all the trees in the pleasaut garde of God, had envye at hi.

New King James Version
I made it beautiful with a multitude of branches, So that all the trees of Eden envied it, That were in the garden of God.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'I made it beautiful with the multitude of its branches, And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.

Legacy Standard Bible
I made it beautiful with the multitude of its foliage,And all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, were jealous of it.

Contextual Overview

¹ Moreouer, in the eleuenth yere, the first day of ye third moneth, the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying, ² Thou sonne of man, speake vnto Pharao king of Egypt, and to all his people: whom art thou lyke in thy greatnesse? ³ Behold, Assur is a Cedar in Libanon, with faire braunches, and with thycke shadowing bowes, of a hygh stature, & his top was among the thicke bowes. ⁴ The waters made him great, and the deepe set him vp on hye, with her riuers running rounde about his plantes, and sent out her litle riuers vnto all the trees of the fielde. ⁵ Therefore was he higher then all the trees of the fielde, and his bowes were multiplied, & his braunches were long, because of the multitude of the waters, which the deepe sent out. ⁶ Al foules of the aire made their nestes in his braunches, vnder his bowes did all the beastes of the fielde bring foorth their young, and vnder his shadowe dwelt all mightie nations. ⁷ Beautiful was he in his greatnesse, and in the length of his braunches: for his roote stoode beside great waters. ⁸ No Cedar tree might hyde hym in the garden of God, there was no fyrre trees like his braunches, the chestnut trees were not like the bowes of him: all the trees in the garden of God, might not be compared vnto him in his beautie. ⁹ I made him faire with the multitude of his braunches: insomuch that all the trees in the pleasaunt garden of God had enuie at hym.

Bible Verse Review
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made: Ezekiel 16:14, Exodus 9:16, Psalms 75:6, Psalms 75:7, Daniel 2:21, Daniel 2:37, Daniel 2:38, Daniel 4:22-25, Daniel 5:20-23

all the trees: Ezekiel 17:22, Ezekiel 17:24, Judges 9:8-20, Psalms 96:12, Psalms 96:13, Isaiah 55:12, Zechariah 11:2

envied: Genesis 26:14, Genesis 37:11, 1 Samuel 18:15, Proverbs 27:4, Ecclesiastes 4:4, James 4:5, James 4:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:8 - a garden Genesis 2:9 - every Jeremiah 51:53 - mount Ezekiel 28:13 - in Eden Ezekiel 31:16 - and all Ezekiel 31:18 - with the Joel 2:3 - the land 2 Corinthians 12:4 - paradise

Cross-References

Genesis 31:1
And he heard the wordes of Labans sonnes saying, Iacob hath take away all that was our fathers, and of our fathers [goodes] hath he gotten all his glorie.

Genesis 31:2
And Iacob behelde the countenaunce of Laban, and beholde, it was not towardes hym as it was wont to be.

Genesis 31:16
Therfore all the ryches whiche God hath taken from our father, that is ours and our chyldrens: nowe then whatsoeuer God hath sayde vnto thee, that do.

Psalms 50:10
For all the beastes of the forest are myne: and so are the cattel vpon a thousande hylles.

Proverbs 13:22
He that is vertuous leaueth an heritaunce vnto his childers children, & the riches of ye sinner is layde vp for the iust.

Matthew 20:15
Is it not lawfull for me, to do that I wyll with myne owne? Is thyne eye euyll, because I am good?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches,.... Or provinces, the extensiveness of his dominions: all his power and strength, riches and wealth, grandeur and glory, and the vast dominions he was possessed of, were all from the Lord; as whatever kings have are, though they are too apt to ascribe it to themselves; but all are from him, by whom kings reign:

so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him; all the kings of the earth, though they dared not openly speak against him, or oppose him; yet they inwardly grieved at and secretly grudged his grandeur and majesty, superior to theirs, and wished themselves in his stead; and could gladly have done anything, were it in their power, to eclipse his glory, and bring him lower. This is the case of all that are in any eminence, or are conspicuous to others, or in any exalted station above others, be it what it will; whether they have superior gifts and endowments of mind; or greater riches, and larger possessions; or are in high places of honour, trust, and profit. The Targum is,

"I have made him beautiful by the multitude of his mighty ones; and all the kings of the east trembled before him, because of the strength of his power, which he had from the Lord.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fifth prophecy against Egypt: a warning to Pharaoh from the fate of the Assyrians. The Assyrian empire, after having been supreme in Asia for four centuries, had been overthrown by the united forces of the Babylonians and Medes, in the year of the battle of Carchemish (605 b.c.), which had broken the power of Egypt. This gives force to the warning to Egypt from Assyria’s fall.

Ezekiel 31:4

His plants - Rather, her plantation. The water represents the riches and might which flowed into Assyria.

Ezekiel 31:5

When be shot forth - Or, when the deep water sent forth its streams.

Ezekiel 31:8

Garden of God - Paradise.