yet when it is sown, grows up and becomes greater than all the garden plans, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell under its shade.”
Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind, and a covert from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the young men. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
I will plant it in the mountain of the height of Israel; and it will produce boughs, and bear fruit, and be a good cedar. Birds of every kind will dwell in the shade of its branches.
It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”