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TWO EAGLES AND A VINE
So be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 2 Son of humanity, propound a riddle, and proverbialize a proverb to the house of Yisra El; 3 and say, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: A great eagle, great winged, long pinioned, full of plumage, of embroidery, comes to Lebanon; and takes the foliage of the cedar; 4 he plucks off the top of his sapplings and carries it into a land of merchandise; he sets it in Kenaan: 5 and he takes of the seed of the land and gives it in a fruitful field; he takes it by great waters and sets it as a willow tree; 6 and it sprouts and becomes a spreading vine of low height whose branches face him; with the roots under him: and thus it becomes a vine and works branches and spreads foliage. 7 And there is one great eagle with great wings and much plumage: and behold, this vine bends her roots toward him and spreads her branches toward him so that he moistens it by the furrows of her plantation. 8 It is transplanted in a good field by great waters, so as to work branches and to bear fruit - to become a mighty vine. 9 Say, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: It prospers! Tears he not the roots, and lops off the fruit, so it withers? It withers in all the prey of her sprout, even without great power or many people to bear it up by the roots. 10 Yes, behold, transplanting, it prospers! In withering, withers it not when the east wind touches it? It withers in the furrows of the sprout. 11 And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 12 Say, I beseech, to the rebellious house, Know you not what these are? Tell, Behold, the sovereign of Babel comes to Yeru Shalem, and takes the sovereign and the governors and leads them with him to Babel: 13 and takes of the seed of the kingdom and cuts a covenant with him and takes an oath of him: he also takes the mighty of the land: 14 so that the sovereigndom becomes lowly - that it not lift itself; to guard his covenant, so that it stands. 15 And he rebels against him by sending his angels into Misrayim, so that they give him horses and much people. Prospers he? Escapes he who works such? Or, breaks he the covenant and escapes? 16 I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh in the place of the sovereign who has him reign - whose oath he despises and whose covenant he breaks, dies he not with him midst Babel? 17 Not even Paroh with his great valiant and great congregation works for him in the war by pouring mounds, and building battering towers to cut off many souls: 18 seeing he despises the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he gives his hand to work all these; he escapes not. 19 So thus says Adonay Yah Veh: I live! My oath that he despises, and my covenant that he breaks, give I not on his own head? 20 And I spread my net on him and apprehend him in my lure; and I bring him to Babel, and there I plead with him for the treason he treasons against me: 21 and all his fugitives with all his bands fall by the sword; and scatter them who survive toward all winds: and you know that I Yah Veh have worded. 22 Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: I also take of the foliage of the high cedar and give it; I pluck a tender one from the top of his sprouts and transplant it on a high and lofty mountain 23 - transplant it in the mountain of the height of Yisra El: and it bears branches and works fruit and becomes a mighty cedar: and all birds of every wing tabernacle under it; in the shadow of the branches they tabernacle: 24 and all the trees of the field know that I Yah Veh lower the high tree; heighten the low tree: wither the fresh tree; and blossom the dry tree: I Yah Veh word and work it.
TWO EAGLES AND A VINE
So be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 2 Son of humanity, propound a riddle, and proverbialize a proverb to the house of Yisra El; 3 and say, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: A great eagle, great winged, long pinioned, full of plumage, of embroidery, comes to Lebanon; and takes the foliage of the cedar; 4 he plucks off the top of his sapplings and carries it into a land of merchandise; he sets it in Kenaan: 5 and he takes of the seed of the land and gives it in a fruitful field; he takes it by great waters and sets it as a willow tree; 6 and it sprouts and becomes a spreading vine of low height whose branches face him; with the roots under him: and thus it becomes a vine and works branches and spreads foliage. 7 And there is one great eagle with great wings and much plumage: and behold, this vine bends her roots toward him and spreads her branches toward him so that he moistens it by the furrows of her plantation. 8 It is transplanted in a good field by great waters, so as to work branches and to bear fruit - to become a mighty vine. 9 Say, Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: It prospers! Tears he not the roots, and lops off the fruit, so it withers? It withers in all the prey of her sprout, even without great power or many people to bear it up by the roots. 10 Yes, behold, transplanting, it prospers! In withering, withers it not when the east wind touches it? It withers in the furrows of the sprout. 11 And so be the word of Yah Veh to me, saying, 12 Say, I beseech, to the rebellious house, Know you not what these are? Tell, Behold, the sovereign of Babel comes to Yeru Shalem, and takes the sovereign and the governors and leads them with him to Babel: 13 and takes of the seed of the kingdom and cuts a covenant with him and takes an oath of him: he also takes the mighty of the land: 14 so that the sovereigndom becomes lowly - that it not lift itself; to guard his covenant, so that it stands. 15 And he rebels against him by sending his angels into Misrayim, so that they give him horses and much people. Prospers he? Escapes he who works such? Or, breaks he the covenant and escapes? 16 I live - an oracle of Adonay Yah Veh in the place of the sovereign who has him reign - whose oath he despises and whose covenant he breaks, dies he not with him midst Babel? 17 Not even Paroh with his great valiant and great congregation works for him in the war by pouring mounds, and building battering towers to cut off many souls: 18 seeing he despises the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he gives his hand to work all these; he escapes not. 19 So thus says Adonay Yah Veh: I live! My oath that he despises, and my covenant that he breaks, give I not on his own head? 20 And I spread my net on him and apprehend him in my lure; and I bring him to Babel, and there I plead with him for the treason he treasons against me: 21 and all his fugitives with all his bands fall by the sword; and scatter them who survive toward all winds: and you know that I Yah Veh have worded. 22 Thus says Adonay Yah Veh: I also take of the foliage of the high cedar and give it; I pluck a tender one from the top of his sprouts and transplant it on a high and lofty mountain 23 - transplant it in the mountain of the height of Yisra El: and it bears branches and works fruit and becomes a mighty cedar: and all birds of every wing tabernacle under it; in the shadow of the branches they tabernacle: 24 and all the trees of the field know that I Yah Veh lower the high tree; heighten the low tree: wither the fresh tree; and blossom the dry tree: I Yah Veh word and work it.