in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

I will humiliate his enemies, and his crown will shine.

A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

The time is coming when Jacob will take root; Israel will blossom and grow branches. The produce will fill the surface of the world.

“Look, the day! Look, it is coming! Doom has gone out! The staff has budded, pride has blossomed!

May there be an abundance of grain in the earth; on the tops of the mountains may it sway! May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon! May its crops be as abundant as the grass of the earth!

My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the window, peering through the lattice.

On the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony – and the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted, and brought forth buds, and produced blossoms, and yielded almonds!