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SCRIPTURE SELECTIONS Continued. 



VI, it. I went down into the garden of nuts 

 to see the fruits of the valley, and to 

 see whether the vine flourished, and 

 the pomegranates budded. 



ISAIAH. 

 VI, 13. As a teil tree and as an oak whose 



substance is in them when they cast 



their leaves; so the holy seed shall be 



the substance thereof. 

 XLI, 19. I will plant in the wilderness the 



cedar (acacia) tree, and the myrtle, and 



the oil tree; I will set in the desert the 



fir tree, and the pine and the box tree 



together. 

 XLIV, 4. They shall spring up as among 



the grass, as willows by the water 



courses. 

 I.}. He heweth him down cedars, and 



taketb the cypress and the oak, 



which he strengtheneth for himself 



among the trees of the forest; he 



planteth an ash and the rain doth 



nourish it. 

 LV, 12. All the trees of the field shall clap 



their hands; 

 13. Instead of the thorn shall come up the 



fir-tree, and instead of the brier shall 



come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be 



to the LORD for a name. 

 LX, 13. The glory of Lebanon shall come 



unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree and 



the box together. 

 LXI. 3. That thej- might be called trees of 



righteousness, the planting of the LORD, 



that he might be glorified. 



JEREMIAH. 



I, ii. Moreover the word cf the LORD came 

 unto me, saying Jeremiah, what seest 

 thou ? And I said, I see a rod of an 

 almond tree. 



XVII. 7, S. Blessed is the man that trusteth 

 in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD 

 is. For he shall be like a tree, planted 

 by the water, and spreadeth out his 

 roots by the river, and shall not fear 

 when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be 



green, and shall not be careful in the 

 year of drouth, neither shall cease from, 

 yielding fruit. 



EZEKIEL. 



XXXI, 3. Behold the Assyrian was a cedar 

 in Lebanon with fair branches and 



* * * his top was among the thick 

 boughs. 



4. The waters made him great, the deep 

 set him up on high, with the rivers run- 

 ning round about his plants, and sent 

 out her little rivers unto all the trees of 

 the field. 



5. Therefore his height was exalted above 

 all the trees of the field, and his boughs 

 were multiplied, and his branches be- 

 came long, because of the multitude of 

 waters, when he shot forth. 



6. All the fowls of heaven made their 

 nests in his boughs. * * * 



7. Thus was he fair in his greatness in the 

 length of his branches; for his root was 

 by great waters. 



8. The cedars in the garden of God could 

 not hide him; the fir trees were not like 

 his boughs, and the chestnut trees were 

 not like his branches; nor any tree in 

 the garden of God was like unto him in 

 his beauty. 



9. I have made him fair by the multitude 

 of his branches; so that all the trees of 

 Eden, that were in the garden of God, 

 envied him. 



XXXIV, 27. And the tree of the field shall 

 yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield 

 her increase, and they shall be safe in 

 their land, and shall know that I am 

 the LORD. 



XLVII, 12. And by the river by the bank 

 thereof, on this side and on that side 

 shall grow all the trees for meat, whose 

 leaf shall not fade, neither shall the 

 fruit thereof be consumed : it shall bring 

 forth new fruit, according to his months, 



* * * and the fruit thereof shall be 

 for meat, and the leaf thereof for medi- 



