"Joseph is like a wild donkey by a spring, A wild colt on a hillside.

Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.

Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.

Your mother was like a grapevine planted near a stream. Because there was plenty of water, the vine was covered with leaves and fruit.

But I am like an olive tree growing in the house of God; I trust in his constant love forever and ever.

May our sons in their youth be like plants that grow up strong. May our daughters be like stately columns which adorn the corners of a palace.

I once called them a leafy olive tree, full of beautiful fruit; but now, with a roar like thunder I will set its leaves on fire and break its branches.

They will be alive with new growth, and beautiful like olive trees. They will be fragrant like the cedars of Lebanon.

Once again they will live under my protection. They will grow crops of grain and be fruitful like a vineyard. They will be as famous as the wine of Lebanon.

You Gentiles are like the branch of a wild olive tree that is broken off and then, contrary to nature, is joined to a cultivated olive tree. The Jews are like this cultivated tree; and it will be much easier for God to join these broken-off branches to their own tree again.

Happy is the man who has many such arrows. He will never be defeated when he meets his enemies in the place of judgment.