Ezekiel 17:6

You removed a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and then You planted it.

For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms And the flower becomes a ripening grape, Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives And remove and cut away the spreading branches.

You have planted them; they have also taken root; They grow; they have even produced fruit. You are near to their lips But far from their inmost being.

“It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not have dominion over the nations.