Ezekiel 17:5-7

Good News Translation

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.

⁷ “There was another giant eagle with huge wings and thick plumage. And now the vine sent its roots toward him and turned its leaves toward him, in the hope that he would give it more water than there was in the garden where it was growing.^[b]