Ezekiel 17:3-5

New International Version - UK

³ Say to them, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: a great eagle with powerful wings, long feathers and full plumage of varied colours came to Lebanon. Taking hold of the top of a cedar, ⁴ he broke off its topmost shoot and carried it away to a land of merchants, where he planted it in a city of traders.

⁵ ‘“He took one of the seedlings of the land and put it in fertile soil. He planted it like a willow by abundant water,