⁵ I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

² It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.

²⁸ And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:

² My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

¹⁹ My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,

¹² The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.

¹⁹ Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

⁶ In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

¹⁷ So that Christ may have his place in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and based in love,

²⁷ Give thought to the flowers: they do no work, they make no thread; and still I say to you, Even Solomon, in all his glory, was not clothed like one of these.

⁷ And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.

²² This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain;

²³ It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.

²⁴ And it will be clear to all the trees of the field that I the Lord have made low the high tree and made high the low tree, drying up the green tree and making the dry tree full of growth; I the Lord have said it and have done it.

⁴ It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

³⁰ And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth and give fruit.

⁶ May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

¹⁶ May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

⁴ For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

³ For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

⁵ Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.

¹⁶ My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

¹ I am a rose of Sharon, a flower of the valleys.

² As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.