The Towering Cedar

The book of the prophet ezekiel, chapter 31, is about a towering cedar in lebanon. The lord god says he will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations to deal with as its wickedness deserves. Foreigners, the most terrible of the nations, will cut it down and leave it on mountains and valleys. And all the peoples of the earth will go from its shadow and leave it. Upon its ruin will dwell all the birds of the air. And upon its branches will be all the beasts of the field. All this in order that no trees by the waters may grow to lofty height or set their tops among the clouds - for they are