Ezekiel 17:3-5

Evangelical Heritage Version

A great eagle with powerful wings, with long feathers, and covered with multicolored plumes, came to Lebanon. He took the tip of a cedar. ⁴ He plucked off the newest shoot at the very top of the tree, and he carried it to a land of merchants. In a city of traders he planted it.

⁵ Then he took seed from the land and planted it in a fertile field, like a new plant beside plentiful water. He set it out like a willow twig,