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Ezekiel

ESV

Chapter 17

¹The word of the LORD came to me: ²“Son of man, propound a riddle and speak an allegory to the house of Israel; ³say, Thus says the Lord GOD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, rich in plumage of many colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar. ⁴He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants. ⁵Then he took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig, ⁶and it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained under him. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out foliage. ⁷“There was another great eagle with great wings and many feathers, and behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot forth its branches toward him that he might water it. From the bed where it was planted ⁸it was transplanted to good soil beside abundant waters, that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine. ⁹Say, Thus says the Lord GOD: Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers—so that all its fresh sprouting leaves wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it from its roots. ¹⁰Behold, though it is planted, will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?” ¹¹Then the word of the LORD came to me: ¹²“Say now to the rebellious house, Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took her king and her princes and brought them to him to Babylon. ¹³Then he took one of the royal offspring and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He took away the leading men of the land, ¹⁴that the kingdom might be humble and not lift itself up, and that by keeping his covenant it might stand. ¹⁵But he rebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt to get him horses and many troops. Will he prosper? Can he escape who does such things? Can he break a covenant and yet escape? ¹⁶As I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king resides who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke—with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. ¹⁷Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives. ¹⁸Because he despised the oath and broke the covenant, because he gave his hand and yet did all these things, he shall not escape. ¹⁹Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: As I live, surely my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke—I will return it upon his head. ²⁰I will spread my net over him, and he shall be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there for the treason that he has committed against me. ²¹And all his fugitives in all his companies shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered to every wind, and you shall know that I am the LORD; I have spoken. ²²“Thus says the Lord GOD: I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. ²³On the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. ²⁴And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD; I bring down the high tree, exalt the lowly tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.”