They shall spring up among the grass
    (A)like willows by flowing streams.

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11 And the Lord will guide you continually
    and satisfy your desire in scorched places
    and make your bones strong;
and you shall be (A)like a watered garden,
    like a spring of water,
    whose waters do not fail.

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He is like (A)a tree
    planted by (B)streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its (C)leaf does not wither.
(D)In all that he does, he prospers.

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14 And (A)more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

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But many of those who had heard the word believed, and (A)the number of the men came to about five thousand.

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Then he took of the seed of the land (A)and planted it in fertile soil.[a] He placed it beside abundant waters. (B)He set it like a willow twig,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 17:5 Hebrew in a field of seed

How Shall We Sing the Lord's Song?

137 By the waters of Babylon,
    there we sat down and wept,
    when we remembered Zion.
On the willows[a] there
    we hung up our lyres.

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  1. Psalm 137:2 Or poplars

13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in (A)the courts of our God.
14 They still bear fruit in old age;
    they are ever full of sap and green,
15 (B)to declare that the Lord is upright;
    he is my (C)rock, and there is (D)no unrighteousness in him.

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40 And (A)you shall take on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and (B)you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.

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41 So those who received his word were baptized, and (A)there were added that day about three thousand souls.

The Fellowship of the Believers

42 And (B)they devoted themselves to the apostles' (C)teaching and the (D)fellowship, to (E)the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe[a] came upon every soul, and (F)many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and (G)had all things in common. 45 And (H)they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 And day by day, (I)attending the temple (J)together and (K)breaking bread in their homes, they received their food (L)with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and (M)having favor with all the people. And the Lord (N)added to their number (O)day by day those who (P)were being saved.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:43 Or fear

11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
    and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,
so the Lord God will cause (A)righteousness and praise
    to sprout up before all the nations.

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22 For his shade the lotus trees cover him;
    the willows of the brook surround him.

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