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

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Footnotes

  1. 1:3 Or beside irrigation channels

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
within your house,
your children, 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 the sound of a mighty tumult.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:16 Vg; MT reads broken

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