His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.
Parallel translations
- KJV His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
- BSB His shoots will sprout, and his splendor will be like the olive tree, his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
- NKJV His branches shall spread; His beauty shall be like an olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon.
- NASB His shoots will sprout, His majesty will be like the olive tree, And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.
- NLT Its branches will spread out like beautiful olive trees, as fragrant as the cedars of Lebanon.
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- Ps 52:8But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
- Phil 4:18But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
- Ps 128:3Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
- Ezek 31:3–10Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
- Dan 4:10–15Thus were the visions of my head on my bed: I saw, and behold, a tree in the middle of the earth; and its height was great.
- Ps 80:9–11You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.
- Song 4:11–15Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
- Gen 27:27He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
- Matt 13:31He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
- Jer 11:16Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.
- Ezek 17:5–8“‘“He also took some of the seed of the land, and planted it in fruitful soil. He placed it beside many waters. He set it as a willow tree.
- 2 Cor 2:14–15Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
- John 15:1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.
- Rom 11:16–24If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.
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