The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Parallel translations
- 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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- 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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