Ezekiel 17:4-6

Evangelical Heritage Version

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, ⁶ so that it would sprout and become a spreading vine, low to the ground, so that its branches would turn toward the one who planted it^[a] and its roots would remain under him. So it became a vine and produced shoots and leaves and branches.