Ezekiel 17:8

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

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  • Ezek 17:5-6 : 5 He 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. 6 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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  • Ezek 17:3-7
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    90%

    3Say to them:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘A great eagle with broad wings, long feathers, with full plumage which was multi-hued, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.

    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.

    6It 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.

    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.

  • Ezek 17:9-11
    3 verses
    84%

    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?’”

    11Then LORD’s message came to me:

  • Ezek 17:22-24
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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!’”

  • Jer 17:8
    80%

    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.

  • Jer 2:21
    79%

    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?

  • Isa 5:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1A Love Song Gone Sour I will sing to my love– a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

    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.

  • Ps 80:15
    79%

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

  • Ps 80:8-11
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    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.

  • Ezek 31:7
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    7It was beautiful in its loftiness, in the length of its branches; for its roots went down deep to plentiful waters.

  • Ezek 15:1-2
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    1Burning a Useless Vine The LORD’s message came to me:

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

  • Ezek 19:10-12
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    77%

    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.

  • Gen 40:10
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    10On the vine there were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into 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.

  • Hos 14:7
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    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.

  • Isa 18:5
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    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.

  • Ezek 31:4-5
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    75%

    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.

  • Isa 5:4
    75%

    4What more can I do for my vineyard beyond what I have already done? When I waited for it to produce edible grapes, why did it produce sour ones instead?

  • Dan 4:21
    75%

    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–

  • Isa 5:7
    75%

    7Indeed Israel is the vineyard of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the people of Judah are the cultivated place in which he took delight. He waited for justice, but look what he got– disobedience! He waited for fairness, but look what he got– cries for help!

  • Jer 31:5
    75%

    5Once again you will plant vineyards on the hills of Samaria. Those who plant them will once again enjoy their fruit.

  • Ezek 36:8
    75%

    8“‘But you, mountains of Israel, will grow your branches, and bear your fruit for my people Israel; for they will arrive soon.

  • Num 24:6
    74%

    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.

  • Jer 11:16
    74%

    16I, the LORD, once called you a thriving olive tree, one that produced beautiful fruit. But I will set you on fire, fire that will blaze with a mighty roar. Then all your branches will be good for nothing.

  • Ps 107:37
    74%

    37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • Dan 4:12
    74%

    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.

  • Judg 9:13
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    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!’

  • Joel 1:7
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    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.

  • Isa 37:31
    74%

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

  • Isa 27:6
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    6The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.

  • Isa 17:11
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    11The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

  • Ezek 31:9
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    9I made it beautiful with its many branches; all the trees of Eden, in the garden of God, envied it.

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

  • Amos 9:15
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    15I will plant them on their land and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,”says the LORD your God.