Ezekiel 17:8-10

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁸ It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might become a large vine.

⁹ Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither: and this without a strong arm, or many people, to pluck it up by the root?

¹⁰ Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper then? shall it not be dried up when the burning wind shall touch it, and shall it not wither in the furrows where it grew?