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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Ezekiel 17 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/ezekiel/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/ezekiel/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Ezekiel 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../ezekiel/16.htm" title="Ezekiel 16">◄</a> Ezekiel 17 <a href="../ezekiel/18.htm" title="Ezekiel 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/ezekiel/17-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Son of man, put forth a riddle, and use an allegory to the house of Israel, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and you have said, Thus said Lord YHWH: The great eagle, great-winged, long-pinioned, "" Full of feathers, that has diverse colors, "" Has come to Lebanon, "" And he takes the foliage of the cedar, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>He has cropped the top of its tender twigs, "" And he brings it to the land of Canaan. He has placed it in a city of merchants. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he takes of the seed of the land, "" And puts it in a field of seed, "" He took [it] by many waters, "" He has set it in a conspicuous place. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And it springs up, and becomes a spreading vine, humble of stature, "" To turn its thin shoots toward itself, "" And its roots are under it, "" And it becomes a vine, and makes boughs, "" And sends forth beautiful branches.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And there is another great eagle, "" Great-winged, and abounding with feathers, "" And behold, this vine has bent its roots toward him, "" And it has sent out its thin shoots toward him, "" To water it from the furrows of its planting, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>On a good field, by many waters, it is planted, to make branches, and to bear fruit, to be for a good vine. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Say, Thus said Lord YHWH: It prospers—does he not draw out its roots, "" And cut off its fruit, and it is withered? [In] all the leaves of its springing it withers, "" And not by great strength, or by numerous people, "" To lift it up by its roots. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And behold, the planted thing—does it prosper? When the east wind comes against it, does it not utterly wither? On the furrows of its springing it withers.”<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Now say to the house of rebellion, "" Have you not known what these [are]? Say, Behold, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem, "" And he takes its king, and its princes, "" And brings them to himself to Babylon. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he takes of the seed of the kingdom, "" And makes a covenant with him, "" And brings him into an oath, "" And he has taken the mighty of the land, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>That the kingdom may be humble, "" That it may not lift itself up, "" To keep his covenant—that it may stand. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he rebels against him, "" To send his messengers to Egypt, "" To give to him horses, and many people, "" Does he prosper? Does he who is doing these things escape? And has he broken covenant and escaped? <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>[As] I live—a declaration of Lord YHWH, "" Does he not—in the place of the king who is causing him to reign, "" Whose oath he has despised, "" And whose covenant he has broken—die with him in the midst of Babylon? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And not with a great force, and with a numerous assembly, "" Does Pharaoh maintain him in battle, "" By pouring out a mound, and in building a fortification, "" To cut off many souls. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he despised the oath—to break covenant, "" And behold, he has given his hand, "" And all these he has done—he does not escape. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: [As] I live—My oath that he has despised, "" And My covenant that he has broken, "" Have I not put it on his head? <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And I have spread out My snare for him, "" And he has been caught in My net, "" And I have brought him to Babylon, "" And judged him there [for the] trespass "" That he has trespassed against Me. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And all his fugitives, with all his bands, "" Fall by sword, and those remaining, "" They are spread out to every wind, "" And you have known that I, YHWH, have spoken.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thus said Lord YHWH: I have taken of the foliage of the high cedar, "" And I have set [it], "" I crop a tender one from the top of its tender shoots, "" And I have planted [it] on a high and lofty mountain. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>In a mountain—the high place of Israel, I plant it, "" And it has borne boughs, and yielded fruit, "" And become a good cedar, "" And every bird of every [kind of] wing has dwelt under it, "" They dwell in the shade of its thin shoots. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ezekiel/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And all trees of the field have known "" That I, YHWH, have made the high tree low, "" I have set the low tree on high, "" I have dried up the moist tree, "" And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, "" I, YHWH, have spoken, and have done [it]!”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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