Ezekiel 17:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ And there was another large eagle, with great wings, and many feathers: and behold this vine, bending as it were her roots towards him, stretched forth her branches to him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

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?