Ezekiel 17:4-6

New English Translation

⁴ He plucked off its topmost shoot;
he brought it to a land of merchants
and planted it in a city of traders.
⁵ He took one of the seedlings^[a] of the land,
placed it in a cultivated plot;^[b]
a shoot by abundant water,
like a willow he planted it.
⁶ It sprouted and became a vine,
spreading low to the ground;^[c]
its branches turning toward him,^[d] its roots were under itself.^[e]
So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.