He is like a tree planted beside streams of water[a]
that bears its fruit in season[b](A)
and whose leaf does not wither.(B)
Whatever he does prospers.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 1:3 Or beside irrigation canals
  2. Psalm 1:3 Lit in its season

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house,
your sons, like young olive trees
around your table.(A)

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16 The Lord named you
a flourishing olive tree,(A)
beautiful with well-formed fruit.
He has set fire to it,
and its branches are consumed[a](B)
with a great roaring sound.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 11:16 Vg; MT reads broken

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