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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
    within your house;
your children will be like olive shoots
    around your table.(A)

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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine(A)
    within your house;
your children(B) will be like olive shoots(C)
    around your table.

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10 Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard[a]
    transplanted by the water,
fruitful and full of branches
    from abundant water.(A)

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  1. 19.10 Cn: Heb in your blood

10 “‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard[a](A)
    planted by the water;(B)
it was fruitful and full of branches
    because of abundant water.(C)

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  1. Ezekiel 19:10 Two Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts your blood

But I am like a green olive tree
    in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
    forever and ever.(A)

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But I am like an olive tree(A)
    flourishing in the house of God;
I trust(B) in God’s unfailing love
    for ever and ever.

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24 For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree.

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24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree,(A) how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

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His shoots shall spread out;
    his beauty shall be like the olive tree
    and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.(A)
They shall again live beneath my[a] shadow;
    they shall flourish as a garden;[b]
they shall blossom like the vine;
    their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon.(B)

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  1. 14.7 Heb his
  2. 14.7 Cn: Heb they shall grow grain

    his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,(A)
    his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.(B)
People will dwell again in his shade;(C)
    they will flourish like the grain,
they will blossom(D) like the vine—
    Israel’s fame will be like the wine(E) of Lebanon.(F)

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15 Drink water from your own cistern,
    flowing water from your own well.
16 Should your springs be scattered abroad,
    streams of water in the streets?(A)
17 Let them be for yourself alone
    and not for sharing with strangers.
18 Let your fountain be blessed,
    and rejoice in the wife of your youth,(B)

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15 Drink water from your own cistern,
    running water from your own well.
16 Should your springs overflow in the streets,
    your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone,
    never to be shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.(B)

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22 Joseph is a fruitful bough,[a]
    a fruitful bough by a spring;
    his branches run over the wall.[b](A)

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  1. 49.22 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 49.22 Meaning of Heb uncertain

22 “Joseph(A) is a fruitful vine,(B)
    a fruitful vine near a spring,
    whose branches(C) climb over a wall.[a]

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  1. Genesis 49:22 Or Joseph is a wild colt, / a wild colt near a spring, / a wild donkey on a terraced hill

16 The Lord once called you, “A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit,” but with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and its branches will be consumed.(A)

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16 The Lord called you a thriving olive tree(A)
    with fruit beautiful in form.
But with the roar of a mighty storm
    he will set it on fire,(B)
    and its branches will be broken.(C)

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12 May our sons in their youth
    be like plants full grown,
our daughters like corner pillars,
    cut for the building of a palace.(A)

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12 Then our sons in their youth
    will be like well-nurtured plants,(A)
and our daughters will be like pillars(B)
    carved to adorn a palace.

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Happy is the man who has
    his quiver full of them.
He shall not be put to shame
    when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.(A)

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Blessed is the man
    whose quiver is full of them.(A)
They will not be put to shame
    when they contend with their opponents(B) in court.(C)

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