“The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.”
All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and in its shade lived all great nations, portraying the cedar as a cosmic shelter supporting all terrestrial life. The enumeration of birds, beasts, and nations suggests that Assyrian power provided the structural framework for the entire political order. The shade metaphor indicates protection and security afforded by Assyrian dominance.
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