Jacob 5:3 -- "For behold, thus saith the Lord, I will liken thee, O house of Israel, like unto a tame olive tree, which a man took and nourished in his vineyard; and it grew, and waxed old, and began to decay."
Am I, then, like that olive tree -- now tame and all decayed:
Is my fruit bitter to the taste, my harvest too delayed?
Have I repaid my Master's toil and nourishment so great
by turning wild and heedless and becoming second-rate?
Tis easy to be twisted and produce a wormy fruit;
O Lord, help me to prune away my sins down to the root!
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