Ezekiel 17:6

It sprouted and became a vine, spreading low to the ground; its branches turning toward him, its roots were under itself. So it became a vine; it produced shoots and sent out branches.

Ezekiel 17:14

so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.

Proverbs 16:18-19

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

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It grew

Ezekiel 17:14
so it would be a lowly kingdom which could not rise on its own but must keep its treaty with him in order to stand.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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Isaiah 18:5
For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

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