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The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalms 92:12 · World English Bible
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  • KJV The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • BSB The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • NKJV The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • NASB The righteous person will flourish like the palm tree, He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • NLT But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 14

  • Jer 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
  • Ps 1:3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
  • Ps 52:8But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.
  • Ps 104:16Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
  • Hos 14:5–6I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
  • Num 24:6As valleys they are spread out, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
  • Amos 2:9Yet I destroyed 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.
  • Isa 65:22They will not build, and another inhabit. They will not plant, and another eat: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
  • Ps 72:7In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.
  • Isa 55:13Instead of the thorn the cypress tree will come up; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree will come up: and it will make a name for Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that will not be cut off.”
  • 1 Kgs 6:29He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.
  • Ps 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
  • 1 Kgs 4:33He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows out of the wall; he also spoke of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish.
  • Ps 148:9mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 92:12 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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