“The cedars
In the garden of God
Could not rival it.
The fir trees
Could not equal
Its boughs.
The plane trees were
As nothing
Compared
With its branches.
No tree
In the garden of God
Was like it
In beauty.
I made it beautiful
With its mass
Of its branches.
All the trees of Eden
Envied it.
All the trees envied it
That were
In the garden of God.”
Yahweh, via Ezekiel, compared this great cedar to the cedars in the Garden of Eden from Genesis, chapters 2-3. This is much like chapter 28 of this work with the comparison between the precious stones of Tyre and the Garden of Eden. Here the Garden of Eden is called the garden of God. The cedars from this garden of God could not rival this great cedar. The fir trees of the garden of God were not equal to this cedar either. All the branches of common trees were as nothing compared to this great cedar tree. In fact, no tree in the garden of God was like it in its beauty and branches. All the trees from the Garden of Eden, the garden of God, envied this great cedar. Yahweh had made this beautiful cedar tree.