9. I gave it many branches and made it beautiful. And all the trees in Eden, God’s garden, were jealous!’”
10. So this is what the Lord GOD says: “That tree grew tall. Its top reached up to the clouds. It grew so big that it became proud!
11. So I let a powerful king have that tree. That ruler punished the tree for the bad things it did. I took that tree out of my garden.
12. Strangers—the most terrible people in the world—cut it down and scattered its branches on the mountains and in the valleys. Its broken limbs drifted down the rivers flowing through that land. There was no more shadow under that tree, so all the people left.
13. Now birds live in that fallen tree. Wild animals walk over its fallen branches.