“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ezekiel 17 contains 24 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.