Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

A righteous man shall flourish like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Julia Smith Translation

The just one shall flourish as the palm tree: he shall become great as the cedar in Lebanon.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] righteous will flourish like the date palm. They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

NET Bible

The godly grow like a palm tree; they grow high 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.

The Emphasized Bible

The righteous, like the palm-tree, shall thrive, Like the cedar in Lebanon, shall he grow;

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.

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Context Readings

God's Love And Faithfulness

11 And mine eye shall see its desire on mine enemies; mine ears shall hear it of the evil-doers that rise up against me. 12 The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon. 13 Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God:

Cross References

Psalm 52:8

But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I will confide in the loving-kindness of God for ever and ever.

Hosea 14:5-6

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Psalm 1:3

And he is as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

Psalm 104:16

The trees of Jehovah are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted,

Numbers 24:6

Like valleys are they spread forth, like gardens by the river side, Like aloe-trees which Jehovah hath planted, like cedars beside the waters.

1 Kings 4:33

And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

1 Kings 6:29

And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved sculptures of cherubim, and palm-trees, and half-open flowers, within and without.

Psalm 72:7

In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace till the moon be no more.

Psalm 92:7

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

Psalm 148:9

Mountains and all hills, fruit-trees and all cedars;

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle; and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 65:22

they shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:8

For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit.

Amos 2:9

But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

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