He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.

Then ¹  he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree and all the other trees. ² 

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad ¹  and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.

“So the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!’ ¹ 

In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad ¹  tree bears bad fruit.

A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.

All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”

The vine has dried up; the fig tree languishes – the pomegranate, date, and apple ¹  as well. In fact, ²  all the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, the joy of the people ³  has dried up!

The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, ¹  every tree that was pleasing to look at ²  and good for food. (Now ³  the tree of life ⁴  and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ⁵  were in the middle of the orchard.)

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,

Whirring locusts ¹  will take over every tree and all the produce of your soil.

you mountains and all you hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars,

The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it, nor could the fir trees ¹  match its boughs; the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches; no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat ¹  of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

“So the trees said to the grapevine, ‘You come and be our king!’ ¹ 

So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.

I constructed pools of water for myself, to irrigate my grove ¹  of flourishing trees.

On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees ¹  – palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook – and you must rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

“The trees were determined to go out ¹  and choose a king for themselves. ²  They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king!’ ³ 

But the olive tree said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!’ ¹