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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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12 The righteous flourish like the palm tree
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.(A)
13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in the courts of our God.
14 In old age they still produce fruit;
    they are always green and full of sap,(B)

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They are like trees
    planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
    and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.(A)

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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)

O Ephraim, what have I[c] to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.[d]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
    your fruit comes from me.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 14.7 Heb his
  2. 14.7 Cn: Heb they shall grow grain
  3. 14.8 Or What more has Ephraim
  4. 14.8 Heb him

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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But I trusted in your steadfast love;
    my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.(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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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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18 Truly the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
    on those who hope in his steadfast love,(A)

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11 but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him,
    in those who hope in his steadfast love.

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