Ezekiel 17:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

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  • Isa 44:4 : 4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.
  • Deut 8:7-9 : 7 For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills; 8 A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey; 9 Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.
  • 2 Kgs 24:17 : 17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.
  • Isa 15:7 : 7 For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.
  • Jer 37:1 : 1 And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.
  • Ezek 17:13 : 13 And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:
  • Ezek 19:11-12 : 11 And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches. 12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.

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  • Ezek 17:6-10
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    6And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.

    7And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.

    8He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

    9Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?

    10And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

  • 4Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.

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    22This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain;

    23It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

    24And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

  • Ps 80:8-11
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    8You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.

    9You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

    10The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

    11It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River.

  • Isa 5:1-2
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    1Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

    2And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

  • 8For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

  • Ezek 31:4-7
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    4It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.

    5In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.

    6In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.

    7So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.

  • 15Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

  • 6They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

  • 14He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.

  • Job 14:8-9
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    8Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

    9Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

  • 19I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:

  • 21But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

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    5I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

    6I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

    7His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

  • 6In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

  • 5For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

  • 16The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

  • 5Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

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    3He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

  • Job 8:16-17
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    16He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

    17His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.

  • 2Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?

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    10Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

    11And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.

  • Isa 17:10-11
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    10For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

    11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • 9I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.

  • 13And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.

  • 11And the tree became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven, and to be seen from the ends of the earth:

  • 16You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

  • 15And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

  • 5I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

  • 32But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

  • 4And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.