I said, *I will climb up into the palm tree. I will take hold of its fruit.* Let your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the smell of your breath like apples, Beloved
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.