Psalm 92:12
New International Version
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;

New Living Translation
But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

English Standard Version
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Berean Standard Bible
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

King James Bible
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

New King James Version
The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

New American Standard Bible
The righteous person will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

NASB 1995
The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

NASB 1977
The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Legacy Standard Bible
The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Amplified Bible
The righteous will flourish like the date palm [long-lived, upright and useful]; They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic and stable].

Christian Standard Bible
The righteous thrive like a palm tree and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The righteous thrive like a palm tree and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.

American Standard Version
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree and will spring up like the Cedars of Lebanon.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The righteous shall flourish as a palm-tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus.

Contemporary English Version
Good people will prosper like palm trees, and they will grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow up like the cedar of Libanus.

English Revised Version
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Righteous people flourish like palm trees and grow tall like the cedars in Lebanon.

Good News Translation
The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like the cedars of Lebanon.

International Standard Version
The righteous will flourish like palm trees; they will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Literal Standard Version
The righteous flourish as a palm-tree, | He grows as a cedar in Lebanon.

Majority Standard Bible
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

New American Bible
The just shall flourish like the palm tree, shall grow like a cedar of Lebanon.

NET Bible
The godly grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.

New Revised Standard Version
The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

New Heart English Bible
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Webster's Bible Translation
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

World English Bible
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Young's Literal Translation
The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.

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Context
How Great Are Your Works
11My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes. 12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.…

Cross References
Matthew 3:10
The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

Numbers 24:6
They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

Psalm 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Psalm 52:8
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

Psalm 72:7
May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.

Psalm 104:16
The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

Psalm 144:12
Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.


Treasury of Scripture

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

righteous

Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Psalm 52:8
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

Isaiah 55:13
Instead 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.

cedar

Psalm 104:16
The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

Psalm 148:9
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:

Amos 2:9
Yet 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.

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Psalm 92
1. The prophet exhorts to praise God
4. For his great works
6. For his judgments on the wicked
10. And for his goodness to the godly.














(12) Palm tree.--This is the only place where the palm appears as an emblem of moral rectitude and beauty of character, yet its aptness for such comparison has often been noticed. (See Tristram's Natural History of the Bible, p. 384; and comp. Thomson's The Land and the Book, p. 49.)

A moral use was more often made of the cedar. Emblem of kingly might, it also became the type of the imperial grandeur of virtuous souls. (See Bible Educator, iii. 379.)

The contrast of the palm's perennial verdure, and the cedar's venerable age, an age measured not by years, but by centuries, with the fleeting moments of the brief day of the grass, to which the wicked are compared (Psalm 92:7), is very striking, as striking as that in Psalms 1 between the empty husk and the flourishing fruit-tree.

Verse 12. - The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. To an Oriental the palm is the queen of trees. "Of all vegetable forms," says Humboldt, "the palm is that to which the prize of beauty has been assigned by the concurrent voice of nations in all ages" ('Aspects of Nature,' vol. 2. p. 20, Engl. trans.). Its stately growth, and graceful form, its perpetual verdure, its lovely and luxuriant fruit, together with its manifold uses (Strabo, 16:1, § 14), give it precedence over all other vegetable growths in the eyes that are accustomed to rest upon it. It is rather remarkable that, in the Old Testament, it is used as a figure for beauty only here and in Song of Solomon 7:7. Man, in his most flourishing growth, is ordinarily compared either to the cedar (2 Kings 14:9; Song of Solomon 5:15; Ezekiel 31:3-9; Amos 2:9, etc.)or the olive tree (Judges 9:8, 9; Psalm 52:8; Jeremiah 11:16; Hosea 14:6, etc.). He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon (see, besides the passages already quoted, 2 Kings 19:23; 2 Chronicles 2:8; Jeremiah 22:23; Zechariah 11:1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The righteous
צַ֭דִּיק (ṣad·dîq)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6662: Just, righteous

will flourish
יִפְרָ֑ח (yip̄·rāḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6524: To break forth as a, bud, bloom, to spread, to fly, to flourish

like a palm tree,
כַּתָּמָ֣ר (kat·tā·mār)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8558: Palm tree, date palm

and grow
יִשְׂגֶּֽה׃ (yiś·geh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7685: To grow, increase

like a cedar
כְּאֶ֖רֶז (kə·’e·rez)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 730: A cedar tree

in Lebanon.
בַּלְּבָנ֣וֹן (bal·lə·ḇā·nō·wn)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 3844: Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel


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