⁴³ For there is no good tree that brings forth rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that brings forth good fruit.

²¹ Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

³ to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

¹⁰ "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

¹⁶ By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

¹⁷ Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

¹⁸ A good tree can't produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.

¹⁹ Every tree that doesn't grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.

²⁰ Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.

³³ "Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³ They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

¹⁴ They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

⁴ What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?