Ezekiel 17:1-4 ▼

1 And the word of YHWH came to me, saying:

2 “Son of man, pose a riddle and present a parable to the house of Israel,

3 and say, thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘A great eagle, great of wings and long of pinions, full of feathers that are unto it of many colors, came to Lebanon, and took from the treetop of the cedar.

4 The topmost of its shoots he plucked off and he brought it in to a land of trade. In a city of merchants he set it.