Isaiah 44:4
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They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.
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The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
He took some of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil; he placed it by abundant waters and set it out like a willow.
But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
For as the earth brings forth its growth, and as a garden enables seed to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations.
Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.
The lotus plants conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.
On the first day you are to gather the fruit of majestic trees, the branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees and of willows of the brook. And you are to rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.