“It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might produce branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a good vine.”’”

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.