Ezekiel 17:7
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. 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.
In its setting the verse belongs to the parable of Zedekiah made subject to the king of Babylon under a solemn covenant entered before God that bound him to render loyal allegiance. It concerns his breaking of that covenant by turning from the allegiance he had sworn to keep. Because of that breach God removed the diadem and the crown and brought the earthly throne of the Lord to an end. The kingdom was then to be subjected to Babylon and overturned through Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome, and to be no more until the coming of the one to whom the right belongs. That coming one is Jesus, to whom God will give the throne of David to reign forever at the end of this world and the beginning of the world to come.