Ezekiel 17:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.”
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“He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 17:4 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 24:12Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his officials all surrendered to the king of Babylon. So in the eighth year of his reign, the king of Babylon took him captive.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 24:1After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:13You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
- 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.”
- Revelation 18:11And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—
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