Ezekiel 17:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And say: Thus saith the Lord God: A large eagle with great wings, long-limbed, full of feathers, and of variety, came to Libanus, and took away the marrow of the cedar.

⁴ He cropped off the top of the twigs thereof: and carried it away into the land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city of merchants.

⁵ 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.