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The Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine

Ezekiel 17:4

In 11 translations

BSB
He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.
KJV
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.
WEB
He cropped off the topmost of its young twigs, and carried it to a land of traffic. He planted it in a city of merchants.
ASV
he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
LSV
He has cropped the top of its tender twigs, || And he brings it to the land of Canaan. He has placed it in a city of merchants.
YLT
The top of its tender twigs it hath cropped, And it bringeth it in to the land of Canaan. In a city of merchants it hath placed it.
DBY
He cropped off the top of its young shoots, and carried it into a merchants' land; he set it in a city of traders.
DRC
He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried it away into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city of merchants.
GNV
And brake off the toppe of his twigge, and caried it into the land of marchants, and set it in a citie of marchants.
JPS
He cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it into a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
LXXE
he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.

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Original-language editions

WLC
אֵ֛ת רֹ֥אשׁ יְנִֽיקוֹתָ֖יו קָטָ֑ף וַיְבִיאֵ֨הוּ֙ אֶל־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן בְּעִ֥יר רֹכְלִ֖ים שָׂמֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
τὰ ἄκρα τῆς ἁπαλότητος ἀπέκνισε, καὶ ἤνεγκεν αὐτὰ εἰς γῆν Χαναὰν, εἰς πόλιν τετειχισμένην ἔθετο αὐτά.

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  • Isaiah 47:15This is what they are to you— those with whom you have labored and traded from youth— each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.
  • Revelation 18:3All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”
  • Isaiah 43:14Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake, I will send to Babylon and bring them all as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships in which they rejoice.
  • Jeremiah 51:13You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
  • Revelation 18:11–19And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo— cargo of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; of fine linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; of all kinds…

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