Your wife will give you many children, like a vine that produces much fruit. Your children will bring you much good, like olive branches that produce many olives.
Ulam’s sons were mighty warriors and good archers. They had many sons and grandsons—one hundred fifty of them in all. All these men were Benjamin’s descendants.
The Lord called you “a leafy olive tree, with beautiful fruit and shape.” But with the roar of a strong storm he will set that tree on fire, and its branches will be burned up.
“ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted beside the water. The vine had many branches and gave much fruit, because there was plenty of water.
It is not natural for a wild branch to be part of a good tree. And you who are not Jews are like a branch cut from a wild olive tree and joined to a good olive tree. But since those Jews are like a branch that grew from the good tree, surely they can be joined to their own tree again.