“Thus says Yahweh God!
‘I myself
Will take a sprig
From the lofty top
Of the cedar.
I will set it out.
I will break off
A tender one
From the topmost
Of its young twigs.
I myself
Will plant it
On a high mountain,
On a lofty mountain.’”
Yahweh himself was going to plant this sprig branch on a high mountain. He was going to take it off the top of a very high cedar tree. He was going to break off a tender twig from the top of that tree. Then he was going to plant it on a high lofty mountain. There would be no more eagle plantings. Yahweh himself was stepping in.
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