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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 you a thriving olive tree(A)
    with fruit beautiful in form.
But with the roar of a mighty storm
    he will set it on fire,(B)
    and its branches will be broken.(C)

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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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That person is like a tree(A) planted by streams(B) of water,(C)
    which yields its fruit(D) in season
and whose leaf(E) does not wither—
    whatever they do prospers.(F)

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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 a wicked and ruthless man
    flourishing(A) like a luxuriant native 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 will flourish(A) like a palm tree,
    they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;(B)
13 planted in the house of the Lord,
    they will flourish in the courts of our God.(C)

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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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Your wife will be like a fruitful vine(A)
    within your house;
your children(B) will be like olive shoots(C)
    around your 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 Then our sons in their youth
    will be like well-nurtured plants,(A)
and our daughters will be like pillars(B)
    carved to adorn 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 young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,(A)
    his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.(B)

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