◄ Ezekiel 17:8 ►
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Good News Translation
But the vine had already been planted in a fertile, well-watered field so that it could grow leaves and bear grapes and be a magnificent vine.

New Revised Standard Version
it was transplanted to good soil by abundant waters, so that it might produce branches and bear fruit and become a noble vine.

Contemporary English Version
But the vine was already growing in fertile soil, where there was plenty of water to produce healthy leaves and large grapes.

New American Bible
it was transplanted to a fertile field By abundant waters, to produce branches, to bear fruit, to become a majestic vine.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might become a large vine.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might become a large vine.

soil.

Ezekiel 17:5,6 And he took of the seed of the land, and put it in the ground for seed, that it might take a firm root over many waters: he planted it on the surface of the earth. . . .

and that.

Context
The Parable of Two Eagles and a Vine
…7And there was another large eagle, with great wings, and many feathers: and behold this vine, bending as it were her roots towards him, stretched forth her branches to him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. 8It was planted in a good ground upon many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and bear fruit, that it might become a large vine.9Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither: and this without a strong arm, or many people to pluck it up by the root?…
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:7
And there was another large eagle, with great wings, and many feathers: and behold this vine, bending as it were her roots towards him, stretched forth her branches to him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

Ezekiel 17:9
Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God: Shall it prosper then? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and strip off its fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath shot forth, and make it wither: and this without a strong arm, or many people to pluck it up by the root?

Ezekiel 31:4
The waters nourished him, the deep set him tip on high, the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent, forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.

Ezekiel 17:7
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