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
He will grow like a
King James Version
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Holman Bible
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.
Themes
Bearing fruit » Who is planted firmly
Cedars » Lebanon celebrated for
Cedars » Illustrative of » Saints in their rapid growth
God's Promises » To the prayerful » To the righteous
God's Promises » Mysteries of of progress » Spiritual progress a characteristic of the righteous
Lebanon » Celebrated for » Cedars
Palm tree » Figurative » Of the prosperity of the righteous
Palm trees » Illustrative of » The righteous
Palm trees » Described as » Flourishing
spiritual Progress » A characteristic of the righteous
Righteous » Compared with » Cedars in lebanon
Righteous » Compared with » Palm trees
The righteous » The righteous, promises to
Righteousness » Promises concerning » Promises to the righteous
compared to Saints » Cedars in lebanon
compared to Saints » Palm trees
Topics
References
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 92:12
Verse Info
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.
Names
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.