³ Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, In the innermost parts of your house; Your children like olive plants, Around your table.

⁸ But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.

¹⁰ Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

¹² Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, Our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

¹⁵ Drink water out of your own cistern, Running water out of your own well.

¹⁶ Should your springs overflow in the streets, Streams of water in the public squares?

¹⁷ Let them be for yourself alone, Not for strangers with you.

¹⁸ Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

²² "Joseph is a fruitful vine, A fruitful vine by a spring; His branches run over the wall.

⁵ Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

⁶ His branches will spread, And his beauty will be like the olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon.

⁷ Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, And blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

¹⁶ Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.

²⁴ For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?