Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that arise up against me. 12 The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 Such as be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.


Cross References

Psalm 52:8

As for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God, my trust is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever.

Hosea 14:5-6

I will be as dew to Israel, and he shall flourish as a lily, and stretch out his roots as Lebanon.

Psalm 1:3

And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season. His leaf, also, shall not wither; and, look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper.

Psalm 104:16

The trees of the LORD also are full of sap, even the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted,

Numbers 24:6

even as the broad valleys and as gardens by the river's side, as the tents which the LORD hath pitched and as cypress trees upon the water.

1 Kings 4:33

And he disputed of trees, even from the Cedar tree that groweth in Lebanon unto the Hyssop that springeth out of the wall. And he disputed of beasts, fowls, worms, and fishes.

1 Kings 6:29

And all the walls of the house round about, he garnished with work of Cherubs and palm trees and graven flowers, both within in the quyre and without in the temple.

Psalm 72:7

In his time shall the righteous flourish, yea, and abundance of peace, so long as the moon endureth.

Psalm 92:7

that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.

Psalm 148:9

mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars;

Isaiah 55:13

For thorns, there shall grow Fir trees, and the Myrtle tree in the stead of briers. And this shall be done to the praise of the LORD, and for an everlasting token, that shall not be taken away.

Isaiah 65:22

They shall not build, and another possess; they shall not plant, and another eat. But the life of my people shall be like a tree, and so shall the work of their hands.

Jeremiah 17:8

For he shall be as a tree, that is planted by the waterside: which spreadeth out the root unto moistness, whom the heat cannot harm, when it cometh, but his leaves are green. And though there grow but little fruit because of drought yet is he not careful, but he never leaveth off to bring forth fruit.

Amos 2:9

"'Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, that was as high as the Cedar trees, and as strong as the oaks: notwithstanding I destroyed his fruit from above and his root from under.

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