Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

Darby Translation

The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on 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 look upon mine enemies: in the risings up of the unjust against me, mine ears shall hear. 12 The just one shall flourish as the palm tree: he shall become great as the cedar in Lebanon. 13 Those being planted in the house of Jehovah, shall flourish in the enclosures of our God.

Cross References

Psalm 52:8

And I am as a green olive tree in the house of God: I trusted in the mercy of God forever and ever.

Hosea 14:5-6

I will be as the dew to Israel: he shall blossom as the lily and strike his roots as Lebanon.

Psalm 1:3

And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.

Psalm 104:16

And the trees of Jehovah shall be satisfied; the cedars of Lebanon which he planted;

Numbers 24:6

As valleys extended, as a garden by the river, as tents Jehovah pitched, as cedars by the waters.

1 Kings 4:33

And he will speak concerning the woods, from the cedar which is in Lebanon, even to the hyssop which went forth on the wall: and he will speak upon the cattle, and upon the birds, and upon the creeping things, and upon the fishes.

1 Kings 6:29

And all the walls of the house round about he carved with engravings of cherubims and palm trees and opening flower-buds from within and to without

Psalm 72:7

The just one shall break forth in his days, and a multitude of peace even till no moon.

Psalm 92:7

In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:

Psalm 148:9

Mountains and all hills; the tree of fruit and all cedars:

Isaiah 55:13

Instead of the thorn-hedge shall come up the cypress; of the briar shall come up the myrtle: and it was to Jehovah for a name for an eternal sigh; it 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 the days of my people, and my chosen shall wear out the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:8

And he was as a tree planted by the waters, and it shall spread out its roots by the river, and it shall not see when heat shall come, and its leaf was green; and it shall not be afraid in the year of restraint, and it shall not withdraw from making fruit.

Amos 2:9

And I destroyed the Amorite from their face, whom his height as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; and I will destroy his fruit from above and his roots from beneath.

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