And the fading flower of the beauty of his glory That is on the head of the fat valley, Hath been as its first-fruit before summer, That its beholder seeth, While it is yet in his hand he swalloweth it.

"In a very little while, will not Lebanon be turned into a garden of fruit, and the garden of fruit seem like a forest?

Who hath wrought and done, Calling the generations from the first? I, Jehovah, the first, and with the last I am He.

Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him ; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.

“They will build houses and live in them;
They will plant vineyards and eat the fruit.

“They will not build and another occupy;
They will not plant and another eat [the fruit].
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen [people] will fully enjoy [and long make use of] the work of their hands.