There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
 

17:7 her branches toward him. Instead of serving under Nebuchadnezzar, as Jeremiah had urged, Zedekiah soon turned to Egypt for help (Ezekiel 17:15), but God said that the nation would “utterly wither” (Ezekiel 17:10) as a result of this rebellion (against God, as well as Nebuchadnezzar).

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