¹⁷ “The poor and needy search for water,^(A)
    but there is none;
    their tongues are parched with thirst.^(B)
But I the Lord will answer^(C) them;
    I, the God of Israel, will not forsake^(D) them.
¹⁸ I will make rivers flow^(E) on barren heights,
    and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert^(F) into pools of water,^(G)
    and the parched ground into springs.^(H)
19 I will put in the desert^(I)
    the cedar and the acacia,^(J) the myrtle and the olive.
I will set junipers^(K) in the wasteland,
    the fir and the cypress^(L) together,^(M)