Ezekiel 17

1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2“Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;Cross-references: Judg 9:8 · Judg 14:12 · 2Sam 12:1 · Ezek 20:49 · Ezek 24:3 · Hos 12:10 · +4 more

3and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers which had various colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · 2Ki 24:10 · 2Chr 36:9 · Jer 4:13 · Jer 22:23 · Jer 24:1 · +10 more

4He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.Cross-references: Isa 43:14 · Isa 47:15 · Jer 51:13 · Rev 18:3 · Rev 18:11

5“‘“He also took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.Cross-references: Deut 8:7 · 2Ki 24:17 · Isa 15:7 · Isa 44:4 · Jer 37:1 · Ezek 17:13 · +1 more

6It grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and its roots were under him. So it became a vine, produced branches, and shot out sprigs.Cross-references: Prov 16:18 · Ezek 17:14

7“‘“There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the ground where it was planted, that he might water it.Cross-references: 2Ki 24:20 · 2Chr 26:13 · Jer 37:5 · Ezek 17:15 · Ezek 31:4

8It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’Cross-references: Ezek 17:5

9“Say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Will it prosper? Won’t he pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, that it may wither, that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? It can’t be raised from its roots by a strong arm or many people.Cross-references: Num 14:41 · 2Ki 25:4 · 2Chr 13:12 · 2Chr 20:20 · Isa 8:9 · Isa 30:1 · +9 more

10Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the ground where it grew.”’”Cross-references: Ezek 19:12 · Hos 12:1 · Hos 13:15 · Matt 21:19 · Mark 11:20 · John 15:6 · +1 more

11Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

12“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.Cross-references: Ex 12:26 · Deut 6:20 · Josh 4:6 · Josh 4:21 · 2Ki 24:10 · 2Chr 36:9 · +17 more

13He took one of the royal offspring, and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land,Cross-references: 2Ki 24:15 · 2Chr 36:13 · Jer 5:2 · Jer 24:1 · Jer 29:2 · Jer 37:1 · +1 more

14that the kingdom might be brought low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.Cross-references: Deut 28:43 · 1Sam 2:7 · 1Sam 2:30 · Neh 9:36 · Jer 27:12 · Jer 38:17 · +4 more

15But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he who does such things escape? Will he break the covenant, and still escape?Cross-references: Deut 17:16 · Deut 29:12 · 2Ki 24:20 · 2Chr 36:13 · Ps 55:23 · Prov 19:5 · +16 more

16“‘As I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the middle of Babylon he will die.Cross-references: Ex 8:2 · Ex 20:7 · Num 30:2 · Josh 9:20 · 2Sam 21:2 · 2Ki 24:17 · +16 more

17Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.Cross-references: Isa 36:6 · Jer 33:5 · Jer 37:5 · Jer 37:7 · Jer 52:4 · Lam 4:17 · +2 more

18For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things. He won’t escape.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:24 · 2Chr 30:8 · Lam 5:6

19“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘As I live, I will surely bring on his own head my oath that he has despised and my covenant that he has broken.Cross-references: Deut 5:11 · Jer 5:2 · Jer 5:9 · Jer 7:9 · Ezek 21:23

20I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.Cross-references: Josh 10:16 · 2Sam 18:9 · 2Chr 33:11 · Job 10:16 · Eccl 9:12 · Jer 2:9 · +13 more

21All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’Cross-references: 2Ki 25:5 · 2Ki 25:11 · Isa 26:11 · Jer 48:44 · Jer 52:8 · Ezek 5:10 · +9 more

22“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.Cross-references: Ps 2:6 · Ps 72:16 · Ps 80:15 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 4:2 · Isa 11:1 · +13 more

23I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Ps 22:27 · Ps 72:8 · Ps 92:12 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 11:6 · +16 more

24All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’”Cross-references: 1Sam 2:7 · Job 5:11 · Job 40:12 · Ps 75:6 · Ps 89:38 · Ps 89:45 · +16 more