Ezekiel 17:4-6

Good News Translation

⁴ which he carried to a land of commerce and placed in a city of merchants. ⁵ Then he took a young plant from the land of Israel and planted it in a fertile field,^[a] where there was always water to make it grow. ⁶ The plant sprouted and became a low, wide-spreading grapevine. The branches grew upward toward the eagle, and the roots grew deep. The vine was covered with branches and leaves.