Ezekiel 17:12–20

12 “Say now to the arebellious house, ‘Do you not bknow what these things mean?’ Say, ‘Behold, the cking of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes and brought them to him in Babylon.

13 ‘He took one of the royal 1afamily and made a covenant with him, 2putting him under boath. He also took away the cmighty of the land,

14 that the kingdom might abe 1in subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his covenant that it might continue.

15 ‘But he arebelled against him by sending his envoys to Egypt that they might give him horses and many 1troops. Will he succeed? Will he who does such things bescape? Can he indeed break the covenant and escape?

16 ‘As I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘Surely in the 1country of the king who 2put him on the throne, whose oath he adespised and whose covenant he broke, 3bin Babylon he shall die.

17 ‘aPharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not 1help him in the war, when they cast up ramps and build siege walls to cut off many lives.

18 ‘Now he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, and behold, he 1apledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.’ ”

19 Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “As I live, surely My oath which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will 1inflict on his head.

20 “I will spread My anet over him, and he will be bcaught in My snare. Then I will bring him to Babylon and center into judgment with him there regarding the unfaithful act which he has committed against Me.