Ezekiel 17:3-5

3Say to them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘A great eagle with broad wings, long feathers, with full plumage which was multi-hued, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.

4He plucked off its topmost shoot; he brought it to a land of merchants and planted it in a city of traders.

5He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.