Ezekiel 17:7-9

Easy-to-Read Version

⁷Then another eagle with big wings saw the grapevine.
    The eagle had many feathers.
The grapevine wanted this new eagle to care for it.
    So it stretched its roots and branches toward the eagle.
Its branches stretched toward this eagle.
    The branches grew away from the field where it was planted.
    The grapevine wanted the new eagle to water it.
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.