KJV King James Version
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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Psalm 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
WEB World English Bible
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
ASV American Standard Version
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.
Surrounding context — Psalm 92
9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like [the horn of] an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Mine eye also shall see [my desire] on mine enemies, [and] mine ears shall hear [my desire] of the wicked that rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
15 To shew that the LORD [is] upright: [he is] my rock, and [there is] no unrighteousness in him.
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Psalm 1:3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.Jeremiah 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.Psalm 52:8But I [am] like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.Psalm 104:16The trees of the LORD are full [of sap]; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;Hosea 14:5-6I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.Numbers 24:6As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, [and] as cedar trees beside the waters.Amos 2:9Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height [was] like the height of the cedars, and he [was] strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.Isaiah 65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree [are] the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.Psalm 72:7In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.Isaiah 55:13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off.Psalm 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:1 Kings 6:29And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.1 Kings 4:33And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that [is] in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.Psalm 148:9Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
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