Ezekiel 17:1-4 ▼

1 Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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

3 and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “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.

4 He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.