Ezekiel 17:12–21

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,

¹⁴that 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.’ ”

¹⁹Therefore, 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.

²¹“All the ^1achoice men in all his troops will fall by the sword, and the survivors will be scattered to every wind; and you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken.”