ARBOR DA Y MANUAL. 
251 
Scripture Selections — Continued. 
VI, 11. I went down into thegarden 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 mj-rtle, 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. 
14. He heweth him down cedars, and 
taketh the cypress and the oak, 
which he strengthened! 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 they might be called trees of 
righteousness, the planting of the Lord, 
that he might be glorified. 
JEREMIAH. 
I, 11. 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, 8. 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 thegarden 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¬ 
cine. 
