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

³ He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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.

⁵ I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, And send down his roots like Lebanon.

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

⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

¹³ Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

¹⁶ Yahweh's trees are well watered, The cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

⁷ Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.

⁷ In his days, the righteous shall flourish, And abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

⁶ As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Yahweh has planted, As cedar trees beside the waters.

⁹ Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, Whose height was like the height of the cedars, And he was strong as the oaks; Yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

²² They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

⁹ Mountains and all hills; Fruit trees and all cedars;

²⁹ He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.

³³ He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.