¹² The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.

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.

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.

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

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

⁸ For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

¹³ In place of the thorn will come up the fir-tree, and in place of the blackberry the myrtle: and it will be to the Lord for a name, for an eternal sign which will not be cut off.

¹⁶ The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

⁷ When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

⁷ In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.

⁶ They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

⁹ Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.

²² They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.

⁹ Mountains and all hills; fruit-trees and all trees of the mountains:

²⁹ And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.

³³ He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.