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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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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

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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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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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

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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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

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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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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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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