Ezekiel 17:8-10

Easy-to-Read Version

⁸The grapevine was planted in a good field near plenty of water.
It could have grown branches and fruit.
It could have become a very good grapevine.’”

⁹This is what the Lord God says:
“Do you think that plant will succeed?
    No, the new eagle will pull the plant from the ground,
and the bird will break the plant’s roots.
    It will eat up all the grapes.
Then the new leaves will wilt.
    That plant will be very weak.
It will not take strong arms
    or a powerful nation to pull that plant up by the roots.
¹⁰Will the plant grow where it is planted?
    No, the hot east wind will blow, and the plant will become dry and die.
    It will die there where it was planted.”