Ezekiel 17:2-4

Good News Translation

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, ⁴ which he carried to a land of commerce and placed in a city of merchants.