When the wicked spring up like grass, and when all the workers of iniquity blossom, it is that they may be destroyed forever.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

Instead of the thorn, the fir tree shall come up; and instead of the brier, the myrtle tree shall come up; and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for a perpetual sign that shall not be cut off.

They shall not build, and another live in them; they shall not plant, and another eat. For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, and My elect shall grow old enjoying the work of their hands.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily and thrust forth his roots like Lebanon.

His branches shall spread out, and his beauty shall be like the olive tree, and his scent as Lebanon.

The trees of Jehovah are full, the cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

mountains and all hills; fruitful trees and all cedars;

Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.