Ezekiel 17:1-3

Good News Translation

The Parable of the Eagles and the Vine

17 The Lord spoke to me. ² “Mortal man,” he said, “tell the Israelites a parable ³ to let them know what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to them: There was a giant eagle with beautiful feathers and huge wings, spread wide. He flew to the Lebanon Mountains and broke off the top of a cedar tree,