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Jeremiah 11:16 (Listen)

16 The Lord once called you v‘a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.’ But wwith the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and xits branches will be consumed.

Psalm 1:3 (Listen)

He is like ia tree

planted by jstreams of water

that yields its fruit in its season,

and its kleaf does not wither.

lIn all that he does, he prospers.

Psalm 37:35 (Listen)

35 aI have seen a wicked, ruthless man,

spreading himself like ba green laurel tree.1

Footnotes

[1] 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain

Psalm 92:12-13 (Listen)

12 xThe righteous flourish like the palm tree

and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;

they flourish in ythe courts of our God.

Psalm 128:3 (Listen)

Your wife will be like ia fruitful vine

within your house;

your children will be like jolive shoots

around your table.

Psalm 144:12 (Listen)

12 May our sons in their youth

be like cplants full grown,

our daughters like dcorner pillars

cut for the structure of a palace;

Hosea 14:6 (Listen)

his shoots shall spread out;

his beauty shall be alike the olive,

and his fragrance like Lebanon.