Ezekiel 17:8

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.

‘The waters made it grow; the deep made it high. With its rivers it was going all around its planting place And sent out its conduits to all the trees of the field.