Ezekiel 17:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁸ It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Though it was planted in good soil where water was plentiful for it to produce leaves and to bear fruit, it was transplanted, that it might become a splendid vine.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

Common English Bible

⁸ a good field with plentiful water where it was planted to grow branches, bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ It had been planted in a good land, above many waters, so that it would produce branches and bear fruit, so that it would become a large vine.

Ezekiel 17:8 Cross References

Ezekiel 17:7

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

Ezekiel 17:9

Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither; even without great power or much people to pluck it up by the roots thereof?

Ezekiel 31:4

The waters nourished him, the deep made him to grow: her rivers ran round about her plantation; and she sent out her channels unto all the trees of the field.