They will spring up like grass or like willow trees near flowing streams.
or hides among reeds in the swamp.
You will have more descendants than there are blades of grass on the face of the earth.
They are like trees growing beside a stream, trees that produce fruit in season and always have leaves. Those people succeed in everything they do.
Your nation would be blessed with more people than there are grains of sand along the seashore. And I would never have let your country be destroyed.
The LORD will always guide you and provide good things to eat when you are in the desert. He will make you healthy. You will be like a garden that has plenty of water or like a stream that never runs dry.
The LORD will bring about justice and praise in every nation on earth, like flowers blooming in a garden.
The eagle also took seed from Israel and planted it in a fertile field with plenty of water, like a willow tree beside a stream.
Pick the best fruit from your trees and cut leafy branches to use during the time of this joyous celebration in my honor.
But a lot of people who had heard the message believed it. So by now there were about five thousand followers of the Lord.
Many men and women started having faith in the Lord.