The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 16:60 (NKJV)
“Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

 

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Ezekiel 16:61 (NIV)

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you
and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my covenant with you.

 

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Ezekiel 16:62 (NIV)

So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the Lord.

 

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Ezekiel 16:63 (NIV)

Then, when I make atonement for you for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and
never again open your mouth because of your humiliation, declares the Sovereign Lord.”

 

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Ezekiel 17:1 (NKJV)
And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

 

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Ezekiel 17:2 (KJV)
Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

 

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Ezekiel 17:3 (NIV)

Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: A great eagle with powerful wings, long feathers and full
plumage of varied colors came to Lebanon. Taking hold of the top of a cedar,

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 17:4 (NIV)

he broke off its topmost shoot and carried it away to a land of merchants, where he planted it in a city of traders.

 

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Ezekiel 17:5 (NKJV)
Then he took some of the seed of the land And planted it in a fertile field; He placed it by abundant waters And set it like a willow tree.

 

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Ezekiel 17:6 (NKJV)
And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature; Its branches turned toward him, But its roots were under it. So it became a vine, Brought forth branches, And put forth shoots.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 17:7 (NIV)

‘“But there was another great eagle with powerful wings and full plumage. The vine now sent out its roots
towards him from the plot where it was planted and stretched out its branches to him for water.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ezekiel 17:8 (NIV)

It had been planted in good soil by abundant water so that it would produce branches, bear fruit and
become a splendid vine.”

 

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Ezekiel 17:9 (NASB)
Say, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: “Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers—so that all its sprouting shoots wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.

 

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Ezekiel 17:10 (ESV)
Behold, it is planted; will it thrive? Will it not utterly wither when the east wind strikes it—wither away on the bed where it sprouted?”

 

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Ezekiel 17:11 (CSB)

The word of the Lord came to me:

 

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Ezekiel 17:12 (CSB)

“Now say to that rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘The king of Babylon
came to Jerusalem, took its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

 

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Ezekiel 17:13 (NKJV)
And he took the king’s offspring, made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,

 

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Ezekiel 17:14 (NKJV)
that the kingdom might be brought low and not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

 

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Ezekiel 17:15 (KJV)

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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Ezekiel 17:16 (KJV)

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.