Ezekiel 17:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

It sprouted and became a vine, spreading low to the ground; its branches turning toward him, its roots were under itself. So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 17:14 : 14 so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.
  • Prov 16:18-19 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. 19 It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoils with the proud.

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  • Ezek 17:7-10
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    7“‘There was another great eagle with broad wings and thick plumage. Now this vine twisted its roots toward him and sent its branches toward him to be watered from the soil where it was planted.

    8In a good field, by abundant waters, it was planted to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a beautiful vine.

    9“‘Say to them: This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Will it prosper? Will he not rip out its roots and cause its fruit to rot and wither? All its foliage will wither. No strong arm or large army will be needed to pull it out by its roots.

    10Consider! It is planted, but will it prosper? Will it not wither completely when the east wind blows on it? Will it not wither in the soil where it sprouted?’”

  • Ezek 17:4-5
    2 verses
    87%

    4He plucked off its topmost shoot; he brought it to a land of merchants and planted it in a city of traders.

    5He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.

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    22“‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘I will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and plant it. I will pluck from the top one of its tender twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

    23I will plant it on a high mountain of Israel, and it will raise branches and produce fruit and become a beautiful cedar. Every bird will live under it; Every winged creature will live in the shade of its branches.

    24All the trees of the field will know that I am the LORD. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it!’”

  • 2He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

  • 10On the vine there were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

  • Ps 80:8-11
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    79%

    8You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out nations and transplanted it.

    9You cleared the ground for it; it took root, and filled the land.

    10The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches.

    11Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea, and its shoots the Euphrates River.

  • Hos 14:6-7
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    6His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

    7People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

  • Ezek 31:4-7
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    4The water made it grow; underground springs made it grow tall. Rivers flowed all around the place it was planted, while smaller channels watered all the trees of the field.

    5Therefore it grew taller than all the trees of the field; its boughs grew large and its branches grew long, because of the plentiful water in its shoots.

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

    7It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

  • 15the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow!

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    10“‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by water. It was fruitful and full of branches because it was well-watered.

    11Its boughs were strong, fit for rulers’ scepters; it reached up into the clouds. It stood out because of its height and its many branches.

    12But it was plucked up in anger; it was thrown down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit; its strong branches broke off and withered– a fire consumed them.

  • 2“Son of man, of all the woody branches among the trees of the forest, what happens to the wood of the vine?

  • 21I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?

  • Job 14:8-9
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    8Although its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump begins to die in the soil,

    9at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

  • Dan 4:11-12
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    77%

    11The tree grew large and strong. Its top reached far into the sky; it could be seen from the borders of all the land.

    12Its foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful; on it there was food enough for all. Under it the wild animals used to seek shade, and in its branches the birds of the sky used to nest. All creatures used to feed themselves from it.

  • Job 8:16-17
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    16He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

    17It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

  • 5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

  • 1An Ideal King Establishes a Kingdom of Peace A shoot will grow out of Jesse’s root stock, a bud will sprout from his roots.

  • 8They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

  • 6The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.

  • 31Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.

  • 32when it is sown, it grows up, becomes the greatest of all garden plants, and grows large branches so that the wild birds can nest in its shade.”

  • Judg 9:12-13
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    75%

    12“So the trees said to the grapevine,‘You come and be our king!’

    13But the grapevine said to them,‘I am not going to stop producing my wine, which makes gods and men so happy, just to sway above the other trees!’

  • 30Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.

  • Dan 4:20-21
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    75%

    20The tree that you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached to the sky, and which could be seen in all the land,

    21whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest–

  • 6They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes that the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

  • 16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

  • 19My roots reach the water, and the dew lies on my branches all night long.

  • 7They have destroyed my vines; they have turned my fig trees into mere splinters. They have completely stripped off the bark and thrown it aside; the twigs are stripped bare.

  • 9I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

  • 6There will be some left behind, like when an olive tree is beaten– two or three ripe olives remain toward the very top, four or five on its fruitful branches,” says the LORD God of Israel.