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Ezekiel 17:22-24 22 Thus says the Lord God : I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of a cedar; I will set it out. I will break off a tender one from the topmost of its young twigs; I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Commentary, Ezekiel 17:22-24, Fred Gaiser, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2012. "That is quite a different image than the images of God as harsh judge and as one interested only in the 'righteous' that we sometimes hear about these days."
24 All the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord. I bring low the high tree; I make high the low tree; I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I the Lord have spoken; I will accomplish it.
17:22-24 The unbelief of man shall not make the promise of God of none effect. The parable of a tree, used in the threatening, is here presented in the promise. It appears only applicable to Jesus, the Son of David, the Messiah of God.
Ezekiel 17:22-24 22 Thus saith the Lord God ; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
Ezekiel 17:22–24 — English Standard Version (ESV) 22 Thus says the Lord God : “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
Biblical Commentary Ezekiel 17:22-24 COMMENTARY: THE BROAD CONTEXT: Ezekiel saw a vision in "the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity" (1:2), the young king of Judah (the Southern Kingdom) who was taken into exile in Babylonia in 597 B.C.
