³ Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

⁸ But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

¹⁰ Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.

¹² Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;

¹⁵ Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

¹⁶ Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

¹⁷ Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

¹⁸ Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

²² Joseph is a young ox, whose steps are turned to the fountain;

⁵ Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.

⁶ I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

⁷ His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.

¹⁶ You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

²⁴ For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?