"And you shall say; So said the Lord God: The great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, who had diverse colors, came to the Lebanon and took the lofty top of the cedar. He plucked the top of its branches and brought it to a land of merchants; in a city of traffickers he placed it. Then he took of the seed of the land and placed it in a fertile field {Yerushalayim}; it took [root] beside abundant waters; a mountain willow he made it. And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature, to turn its tendrils to him, and its roots were under him, and it became a vine and it sprouted branches and sent forth boughs {many leaves}." ~ Yechezkel 17:3-6
"So says the Lord God: And I Myself will take [King Messiah] from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will place [it] [As the Targum renders: and I will establish him.]; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one [a graft], and I Myself will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain. In the mountain of the height of Israel I will plant it, and it will bear boughs and bring forth fruit and become a sturdy cedar, and under it shall dwell all birds of every feather; in the shade of the branches thereof shall they dwell. And all the trees of the field will recognize that I, the Lord, have lowered the high tree, have raised aloft the low tree; that I have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree blossom [Zerubbabel]. I, the L-rd, have spoken, and I will accomplish it." ~ Yechezkel 17:22-24
