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17 “The poor and needy ask for water,
    but there is none,
Their tongues are parched with thirst.
I, Adonai, will answer them,
I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers on the bare hills
and springs in the midst of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water
and the dry land into fountains of water.
19 I will plant in the wilderness
    the cedar and the acacia tree, the myrtle and the olive tree.
I will set in the desert the cypress tree
    and the pine together with the box tree—

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