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They will dry up like a bush
in salty desert soil,
    where nothing can grow.

But I will bless those
    who trust me, the Lord.
(A) They will be like trees
    growing beside a stream—
trees with roots that reach
    down to the water,
and with leaves
    that are always green.
They bear fruit every year
and are never worried
    by a lack of rain.

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That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places(A) of the desert,
    in a salt(B) land where no one lives.

“But blessed(C) is the one who trusts(D) in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
    that sends out its roots by the stream.(E)
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought(F)
    and never fails to bear fruit.”(G)

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