Jeremiah 17:7 → Psalm 1:3

Both texts compare the blessed person to a tree planted by water (עֵץ שָׁתוּל עַל־מַיִם, ets shatul al-mayim). Psalm 1:3 describes the Torah-meditating righteous man as "a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither," while Jeremiah 17:7-8 describes the man who trusts in the LORD as "a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream." The shared botanical metaphor — evergreen foliage, consistent fruit-bearing, resilience in drought — communicates the same theological point: dependence on God produces stability and fruitfulness that external circumstances cannot destroy. Jeremiah sharpens the contrast by opposing this tree to "a shrub in the desert" (17:6), making the arboreal image part of a binary curse/blessing framework. Psalm 1:3's fuller phrase is "streams of water" (פַּלְגֵי מָיִם, palge mayim), the same living-water source Jeremiah's tree sends its roots toward.