John Trapp on Ezekiel 17:9

Ver. 9. Shall it prosper?] How ſhould it? ſay: Hath ever any waxed fierce againſt God (or his ſubſtitute) and proſpered? Job 9.4. Is perfidy and perjury the right way to proſperity? I trow not.

Shall he not pull up] He that is the great Eagle, ver. 3. who would be upon them before they were aware.

Without great power or many people] i. e. For any great need there ſhall be of them, ſith the work ſhall be done with little adoe. If the Chaldaeans were but a few, and they all wounded men, they ſhould yet riſe up and burn this City, ſaith Jeremy. See 2 Chron. 24.23, 24. Its no hard matter we know, to pluck up a vine, root and branch. God telleth us in the next verſe that he can do it with a wind, with a wet finger, as we ſay.