Jacob
The verses in Jacob that became songs, with the songs they became.
Jacob 5 retells Zenos’s allegory of the tame and wild olive trees. In verse 48 the servant notices that the branches had overcome the roots — the growth above ground had outrun what was underneath. That warning helps shape “What I Water Grows,” a song about roots and branches growing together.
Jacob 5:48
And it came to pass that the servant said unto his master: Is it not the loftiness of thy vineyard—have not the branches thereof overcome the roots which are good? And because the branches have overcome the roots thereof, behold they grew faster than the strength of the roots, taking strength unto themselves. Behold, I say, is not this the cause that the trees of thy vineyard have become corrupted?
Heard in
What I Water Grows
