26:016:058 Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine
abominations, saith the
lord.
26:016:059 For thus saith the Lord god; I will
even deal with thee as
thou
hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking
the
covenant.
26:016:060 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant
with thee in the days
of
thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting
covenant.
26:016:061 Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and
be ashamed, when thou
shalt
receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger:
and I
will
give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy
covenant.
26:016:062 And I will establish my covenant with thee;
and thou shalt
know
that I am the lord:
26:016:063 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded,
and never open
thy
mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified
toward
thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord god.
26:017:001 And the word of the lord came unto me, saying,
26:017:002 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak
a parable unto the
house
of Israel;
26:017:003 And say, Thus saith the Lord god;
A great eagle with great
wings,
longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours,
came
unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar:
26:017:004 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.
26:017:005 He took also of the seed of the land, and
planted it in a
fruitful
field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as
a
willow
tree.
26:017:006 And it grew, and became a spreading vine
of low stature, whose
branches
turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under
him:
so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and
shot
forth
sprigs.
26:017:007 There was also another great eagle with
great wings and many
feathers:
and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward
him,
and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might
water
it by the furrows of her plantation.
26:017:008 It was planted in a good soil by great
waters, that it might
bring
forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that
it
might
be a goodly vine.
26:017:009 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord god;
Shall it prosper? shall he
not
pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof,
that
it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her
spring,
even without great power or many people to pluck it
up
by
the roots thereof.


