Ezekiel 17:5

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Then it took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil, placing it by abundant waters like a willow.

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  • Isa 44:4 : 4 They will sprout up like grass among the meadows, like willows by flowing streams.
  • Deut 8:7-9 : 7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with streams of water, springs, and deep waters flowing out in valleys and hills. 8 A land of wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil, and honey. 9 A land where you will eat bread without scarcity—where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can dig copper.
  • 2 Kgs 24:17 : 17 The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.
  • Isa 15:7 : 7 So the wealth they have earned and their stored possessions will be carried away over the Wadi of the Willows.
  • Jer 37:1 : 1 King Zedekiah son of Josiah became king in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed to rule over the land of Judah.
  • Ezek 17:13 : 13 He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under an oath. Then he carried away the leaders of the land.
  • Ezek 19:11-12 : 11 Its branches were strong, fit for rulers' scepters. It towered high; its height was noticeable among the branches, in the lushness of its abundance. 12 But it was uprooted in fury, cast to the ground. The east wind dried out its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and dried up, consumed by fire.

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    6The plant sprouted and became a low, spreading vine, with its branches facing the eagle and its roots growing beneath it. So it became a vine, produced branches, and sent out leaves.

    7But there was another great eagle with powerful wings and abundant feathers. And behold, the vine bent its roots toward it and stretched its branches toward the eagle to be watered from the surrounding garden.

    8It was planted in fertile soil by abundant waters to produce branches, bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.

    9Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: Will it thrive? Will it not be uprooted and its fruit stripped so that it withers? All its new growth will wither. It will not take a great effort or many people to pull it out by its roots.

    10Even if transplanted, will it thrive? Will it not completely wither when the east wind strikes it, drying up in the very garden bed where it grew?’

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    4It plucked the highest branch and carried it to the land of merchants, where it planted it in a city of traders.

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    24Then all the trees of the field will know that I, the LORD, bring down the tall tree and make the low tree grow tall. I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.’

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    8God of Hosts, restore us! Make your face shine upon us so that we may be saved.

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    1Let me sing now for my beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

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    4The waters nourished it; the deep made it grow tall, sending its rivers around its planting place, and they watered all the trees of the field.

    5So it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its branches multiplied, and its boughs grew long because of the abundance of water as it sent them out.

    6All the birds of the sky nested in its branches, every beast of the field gave birth under its boughs, and all the great nations lived in its shade.

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    15God of Hosts, return! Look down from heaven and see; take care of this vine.

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