Complete KJV Holy Bible

26_EZE_17_01 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26_EZE_17_02 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

26_EZE_17_03 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which
had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:

26_EZE_17_04 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of
merchants.

26_EZE_17_05 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed [it] by great waters,
[and] set it [as] a willow tree.

26_EZE_17_06 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the
roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

26_EZE_17_07 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did
bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her
plantation.

26_EZE_17_08 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear
fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

26_EZE_17_09 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off
the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people
to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

26_EZE_17_10 Yea, behold, [being] planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth
it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

26_EZE_17_11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

26_EZE_17_12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these [things mean]? tell [them], Behold, the king
of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to
Babylon;

26_EZE_17_13 And hath taken of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he
hath also taken the mighty of the land:

26_EZE_17_14 That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, [but] that by keeping of his covenant it
might stand.

26_EZE_17_15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses
and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such [things]? or shall he break the covenant, and be
delivered?

26_EZE_17_16 [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place [where] the king [dwelleth] that made him king,
whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, [even] with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

26_EZE_17_17 Neither shall Pharaoh with [his] mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting
up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:

26_EZE_17_18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done
all these [things], he shall not escape.

26_EZE_17_19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; [As] I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my
covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.

26_EZE_17_20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon,
and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

26_EZE_17_21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered
toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken [it].

26_EZE_17_22 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set [it]; I
will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant [it] upon an high mountain and eminent:

26_EZE_17_23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and
be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they
dwell.

26_EZE_17_24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have
exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken
and have done [it].