The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
When God's people lie crushed, He sends word that the cup of trembling passes from their hands to the hands of those who hate them. God bids Pharaoh search history for a parallel to his own case: let him name any potentate he fancies himself equal to, and he will find that great man fell too. The falls of others are warnings against pride and false security.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 31:1-9
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him,.... That is, could not rise so high as this cedar, and overtop him, and obscure his glory; even those that were most excellent, which grew in Eden, near to which Babylon stood, and where a mighty king dwelt.
cedars . . . could not hide him--could not outtop him. No other king eclipsed him. were not like--were not comparable to. garden of God--As in the case of Tyre (Eze 28:13), the imagery, that is applied to the Assyrian king, is taken from Eden; peculiarly appropriate, as Eden was watered by rivers that afterwards watered Assyria (Gen 2:10-14).