The Oil Tree

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?

Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.

And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.

• Righteous

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

• Olive

And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?