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mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done,
saith the Lord GOD.
CHAPTER 17
And the word of the L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a
parable unto the house of Israel;
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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:
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He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land
of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Moreover the word of the L
ORD
came unto me, saying,
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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;
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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:
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That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift
itself up,
but
that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
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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?
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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And all his fugitives
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