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“Son of man,[a] tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel, and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “The great eagle with great wings and long feathers[b] and full of variegated plumage[c] came to Lebanon and he took the treetop of the cedar. He plucked the top of its new plant shoot, and he brought it to the land of Canaan and put it in a city of merchants,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 17:2 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  2. Ezekiel 17:3 Literally “the eagle the great great of the wings long of the feather”
  3. Ezekiel 17:3 Literally “full of the plumage which is for him the variegated”