Ezekiel 17:24
Good News Translation
All the trees in the land will know that I am the LORD. I cut down the tall trees and make small trees grow tall. I wither up the green trees and make the dry trees become green. I, the LORD, have spoken. I will do what I have said I would do."

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
Every tree in the forest will know that I, the LORD, can bring down tall trees and help short ones grow. I dry up green trees and make dry ones green. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will keep my word.

New American Bible
Every tree of the field will know that I am the LORD. I bring low the high tree, lift high the lowly tree, Wither up the green tree, and make the dry tree bloom. As I, the LORD, have spoken, so will I do!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have done it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have done it.

all the trees

Psalm 96:11,12 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, let the sea be moved, and the fulness thereof: . . .

Isaiah 55:12,13 For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees of the country shall clap their hands. . . .

have brought

1 Samuel 2:7,8 The Lord maketh poor and maketh rich, he humbleth and he exalteth: . . .

Job 5:11 Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.

Job 40:12 Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place,

Psalm 75:6,7 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills: . . .

Psalm 89:38,45 But thou hast rejected and despised: thou hast been angry with my anointed. . . .

Isaiah 2:13,14 And upon all the tall and lofty cedars of Libanus, and upon all the oaks of Basan. . . .

Isaiah 9:6,7 For a CHILD IS BORN to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the world to come, the Prince of Peace. . . .

Isaiah 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.

Isaiah 26:5 For he shall bring down them that dwell on high, the high city he shall lay low. He shall bring it down even to the ground, he shall pull it down even to the dust.

Amos 9:11 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

Luke 1:33,52,53 And of his kingdom there shall be no end. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:27,28 But the foolish things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the wise: and the weak things of the world hath God chosen, that he may confound the strong. . . .

I the Lord have spoken.

Ezekiel 12:25 For I the Lord will speak: and what word soever I shall speak, it shall come to pass, and shall not be prolonged any more: but in your days, ye provoking house, I will speak the word, and will do it, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:14 Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail in the days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

Ezekiel 24:14 I the Lord have spoken: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I will judge thee according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, saith the Lord.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

Context
The Parable Explained
23On the high mountains of Israel will I plant it, and it shall shoot forth into branches and shall bear fruit, and it shall become a great cedar: and all birds shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall make its nest under the shadow of the branches thereof. 24And all the trees of the country shall know that I the Lord have brought down the high tree, and exalted the low tree: and have dried up the green tree, and have caused the dry tree to flourish. I the Lord have spoken and have done it.
Cross References
Numbers 17:8
He returned on the following day, and found that the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi, was budded: and that the buds swelling it hid bloomed blossoms, which spreading the leaves, were formed into almonds.

Psalm 96:12
The fields and all things that are in them shall be joyful. Then shall all the trees of the woods rejoice

Isaiah 22:19
And I will drive thee out from thy station, and depose thee from thy ministry.

Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees of the country shall clap their hands.

Ezekiel 18:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: What is the meaning?

Ezekiel 21:26
Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown: is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high?

Ezekiel 22:14
Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail in the days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

Ezekiel 36:36
And the nations, that shall be left round about you, shall know that I the Lord have built up what was destroyed, and planted what was desolate, that I the Lord have spoken and done it.

Daniel 5:21
And he was driven out from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses, and he did eat grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till he knew that the most High ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he will set over it whomsoever it shall please him.

Amos 9:11
All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

Ezekiel 17:23
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