⁴ And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.

¹¹ And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

³ He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

¹⁴ And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;

⁴ But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.

⁴¹ Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.

⁴² And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.

⁴³ But fear came on every soul: and all sorts of wonders and signs were done by the Apostles.

⁴⁴ And all those who were of the faith kept together, and had all things in common;

⁴⁵ And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.

⁴⁶ And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,

⁴⁷ Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.

⁵ And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.

¹¹ For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

¹ By the rivers of Babylon we were seated, weeping at the memory of Zion,

² Hanging our instruments of music on the trees by the waterside.

¹³ Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.

¹⁴ They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;

¹⁵ For a sign that the Lord is upright; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.

²² Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

⁴⁰ On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days.