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16 The Lord once called you (A)‘a green olive tree, beautiful with good fruit.’ But (B)with the roar of a great tempest he will set fire to it, and (C)its branches will be consumed.

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16 The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

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He is like (A)a tree
    planted by (B)streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
    and its (C)leaf does not wither.
(D)In all that he does, he prospers.

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And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

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35 (A)I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
    spreading himself like (B)a green laurel tree.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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12 (A)The righteous flourish like the palm tree
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in (B)the courts of our God.

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12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13 Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

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

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Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

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

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12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

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his shoots shall spread out;
    his beauty shall be (A)like the olive,
    and his fragrance like Lebanon.

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His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

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