The household ¹  of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent ²  of the upright will flourish.

If, however, the disease breaks out ¹  on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection ²  from his head to his feet, as far as the priest can see, ³ 

at the scent ¹  of water it will flourish ²  and put forth ³  shoots like a new plant.

During his days the godly will flourish; ¹  peace will prevail as long as the moon remains in the sky. ² 

The godly ¹  grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon. ² 

Planted in the Lord’s house, they grow in the courts of our God.

The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous ¹  will flourish like a green leaf. ² 

Let the desert and dry region be happy; ¹  let the wilderness ²  rejoice and bloom like a lily!

On the vine there were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, ¹  it is so that they may be annihilated. ² 

The Lover to His Beloved: ¹  I went down to the orchard of walnut trees, ²  to look for the blossoms of the valley, ³  to see if the vines had budded or if the pomegranates were in bloom.

The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; ¹  the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear ²  in the day of disease and incurable pain.

The time is coming when Jacob will take root; ¹  Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce ²  will fill the surface of the world. ³ 

“Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!

They ¹  utter empty words, ²  taking ³  false oaths and making empty ⁴  agreements. Therefore legal disputes sprout up like poisonous weeds ⁵  in the furrows of a plowed field.

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of ¹  Lebanon.

People will reside again ¹  in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. ²  They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

Let it richly bloom; ¹  let it rejoice and shout with delight! ²  It is given the grandeur ³  of Lebanon, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the grandeur of the Lord, the splendor of our God.

“‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note ¹  that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives ²  like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.

It will become fine dust over the whole land of Egypt and will cause boils to break out and fester ¹  on both people and animals in all the land of Egypt.”