Ezekiel 17:11-15

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

¹² Say to the provoking house: Know you not what these things mean? Tell them: Behold the king of Babylon cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall take away the king and the princes thereof, and carry them with him to Babylon.

¹³ And he shall take one of the king's seed, and make a covenant with him, and take an oath of him. Yea, and he shall take away the mighty men of the land,

¹⁴ That it may be a low kingdom and not lift itself up, but keep his covenant, and observe it.

¹⁵ But he hath revolted from him and sent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might give him horses, and much people. And shall he that hath done thus prosper, or be saved? and shall he escape that hath broken the covenant?