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Ezekiel 17

17 This word from the Eternal came to me: 2 “Son of man, propound a riddle, put a parable before Israel, 3 and tell them this from the Lord the Eternal:

‘A huge speckled eagle, with broad wings and long pinions in full plumage, flew to Lebanon and tore off the tip of a cedar; 4 he plucked the young twig on the very top of the branch, and carried it to the land of traffic, setting it in a city of merchants. 5 He also took some seed from the land of Judah and planted it in fertile soil ... to sprout like a slip beside brimming streams 6 and turn into a spreading vine of low size, whose branches might turn towards him, whose roots might be under him—a vine bearing branches and putting out boughs. 7 But there was another huge eagle, with broad wings and thick plumage; and the vine actually bent its roots towards him and stretched its branches towards him, away from the bed where it was planted! 8 It would have him to water it, though it was planted beside brimming streams in a rich soil to bear its branches and yield fruit and prove a noble vine!’ 9 Now ask them, from the Lord the Eternal: ‘Can it prosper? Shall it not be torn up by the roots? Shall not its fruit be plucked, till all its sprouting leaves shall wither? Will it require much power or many a hand to uproot it? 10 It is planted, but shall it prosper? Shall it not wither when the east wind strikes it, wither in the bed where it is growing?’ ”

11 Then this word from the Eternal came to me: 12 “Ask that rebellious folk, ‘Do you not know what all this means?’ Tell them, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took away her king and leaders, carrying them home to Babylon. 13 He also took one of the royal family and made a compact with him; the nobles he removed, 14 that the realm might be submissive and not ambitious, serving him in terms of his compact. 15 But this prince rebelled against him, sending envoys to Egypt for horses and a large army. Shall he prosper? Can a man like that escape? Can he break a compact and escape? 16 By my life! declares the Lord the Eternal, he shall die, die where the king lives to whom he owed his realm, whose oath he spurned, whose compact he broke, die beside him in Babylon. 17 The Pharaoh’s great army and huge host can do nothing for him in the struggle, though mounds are thrown up and forts built to cut off many a life. 18 The man spurned his oath by breaking his compact. He pledged his word, and yet he did all this! Escape he cannot! 19 Therefore the Lord the Eternal decrees: By my life! I will punish him for my oath that he spurned and my compact that he broke; 20 I will fling my net over him and catch him in my toils, carrying him to Babylon, where I will deal with him for his treason to me; 21 all the picked men in his regiment shall fall by the sword, and the survivors shall be scattered to the four winds--to teach you that I the Eternal have decreed this.”

22 The Lord the Eternal declares: “I too will take a branch from the top of the high cedar; I will pluck from its topmost twigs a tender one and plant it on a high, conspicuous hill, 23 on Israel’s lofty mountain, where it shall put out boughs, bear fruit, and grow into a noble cedar, with birds of every feather living under it, in the shadow of its branches. 24 Then all the trees of the country shall learn that I the Eternal lower the high tree, raise the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I the Eternal have said it, and I will do it.”

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