Ezekiel 17:11-24

Lexham English Bible

¹¹ And the word of Yahweh came^[a] to me, saying, ¹² “Say now to the rebellious house of Israel, ‘Do you not know what these are?’^[b] Say, ‘Look! The king of Babylon will come to Jerusalem, and he will take its king and its officials, and he will bring^[c] them to himself,^[d] to Babylon. ¹³ And he took from the seed of the kingship, and he made with him a covenant, and he brought him under oath,^[e] and he took the rulers of the land, ¹⁴ so that they would be a humble kingdom and not lift itself up to keep his covenant in order for it to stand.^{[f] 15} But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt to give to him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Will he escape doing these things, and can he break the covenant and escape? ¹⁶ As I live,’^[g] declares^[h] the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely^[i] in the place of the king who made^[j] him king, who despised his oath and who broke his covenant with him—in the midst of Babylon he will die. ¹⁷ And not with a great army and with a great crowd will Pharaoh work^[k] with him in the war, at the pouring out of a siege ramp and the building of siege works to destroy many lives. ¹⁸ And he despised the oath to break covenant. And, look, he gave his hand in pledge, and yet he did all of these things. He will not escape.’ ¹⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘As I live,^[l] surely^[m] my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke I will return upon his head. ²⁰ And I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my hunting net, and I will bring him to Babylon, and I will enter into judgment with him there about his infidelity that he displayed against me. ²¹ And all of his choice troops, among all of his troops, they will fall by the sword, and those who are remaining,^[n] they will be scattered to all the directions of the wind, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have spoken.’ ²² Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘And I will take, even I, from the treetop of the high cedar, and I will plant it, from the head of its new plant shoot I will pluck a tender one, and I will plant it, even I, on a high and lofty mountain. ²³ On the height of the mountain of Israel I will plant it, and it will carry^[o] branches,^[p] and it will bear fruit, and it will become a noble cedar,^[q] and all of the birds of all wings^[r] will dwell under it in the shade of its branches. ²⁴ And all of the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, I will bring low a high tree, and I will exalt a low, fresh tree, and I will make a dry tree flourish. I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will do it.’”