8  ^hThe cedars ⁱin the garden of God could not rival it,

nor the fir trees equal its boughs;

neither were the plane trees

like its branches;

no tree ⁱin the garden of God

was its equal in beauty.

9  I made it beautiful

in the mass of its branches,

and all the trees of ^jEden envied it,

that were in the garden of God.

3  For the Lord ^fcomforts Zion;

he comforts all her waste places

and makes her wilderness like ^gEden,

her desert like ^hthe garden of the Lord;

ⁱjoy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and the voice of song.