Ezekiel 17:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² Say now to the rebellious household: Don’t you know what these things mean? Say: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and carried its king and its officers away with him to Babylon. ¹³ Then he took a prince from the royal line, made an agreement with him, and made him take a solemn pledge of loyalty. He also took away the land’s officials. ¹⁴ Thus it would be a lowly kingdom, not asserting its own interests but observing the agreement so that it would survive.