Ezekiel 17:11-24 — Legacy Standard Bible

The King Shall Die in Babylon

¹¹Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ¹²“Say now to the ^arebellious house, ‘Do you not ^bknow what these things mean?’ Say, ‘Behold, the ^cking of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes, and brought them to him in Babylon. ¹³‘He took one of the royal ^aseed and cut a covenant with him and brought him under ^boath. He also took away the ^cdominant one of the land, ¹⁴that the kingdom might ¹^,^abecome lowly, not lifting itself up, but keeping his covenant that it might continue. ¹⁵‘But he ^arebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt that they might give him horses and many ¹troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things ^bescape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape? ¹⁶‘As I live,’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘Surely in the ¹country of the king who made him king, whose oath he ^adespised and whose covenant he broke, ²^,^bin Babylon he shall die. ¹⁷‘^aAnd Pharaoh with his mighty military force and great assembly will not ¹help him in the war, when they cast up ramps and build siege walls to cut off many lives. ¹⁸‘Now he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he ¹^,^apledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.’” ¹⁹Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will ¹put on his head. ²⁰“I will spread My ^anet over him, and he will be ^bcaught in My snare. Then I will bring him to Babylon and ^center into judgment with him there regarding the unfaithful act which he has committed against Me. ²¹“All the ¹^,^achoice men in all his troops will fall by the sword, and the remnant will be scattered to every wind; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken.”

²²Thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will also take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and set it out; I will pluck from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on an ^aexalted and lofty mountain. ²³“On the high mountain of Israel I will plant it, that it may lift up ¹boughs and yield fruit and become a majestic ^acedar. And birds of every ²kind will dwell under it; they will dwell in the shade of its ³branches. ²⁴“And all the ^atrees of the field will know that I am Yahweh; I bring down the exalted tree, exalt the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree ^bflourish. I am Yahweh; I have spoken, and I will do it.”