Ezekiel 17

1Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

2Son of man, tell a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;

3and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

4he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs of it, and carried it to a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

5He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.