1. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2. “Son of man, tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel,
3. and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “The great eagle with great wings and long feathers and full of variegated plumage came to Lebanon and he took the treetop of the cedar.
4. He plucked the top of its new plant shoot, and he brought it to the land of Canaan and put it in a city of merchants,
5. and he took from the seed of the land and placed it in fertile soil on many waters; like a willow he planted it.