Psalms 92:12

10 But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

11 My eyes see the downfall of my enemies; my ears hear the wailing of my wicked foes.

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

13 Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

14 In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
KJV
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
WEB
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
ASV
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
DARBY
The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon.
BLB
The righteous one will sprout like a palm tree; like a cedar in Lebanon he will grow.
ÅB
Den rettferdige spirer som palmen; som en seder på Libanon vokser han.
OTB
De rettferdige skal blomstre som palmetreet,
De skal vokse som en seder på Libanon.
B1930
Den rettferdige spirer som palmen; som en seder på Libanon vokser han.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 17:8

    He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.

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  • Psalms 1:3

    He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

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  • Psalms 104:16

    The trees of the LORD have their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted,

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  • Psalms 52:8

    But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

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  • Hosea 14:5–6

    I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

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  • Numbers 24:6

    They spread out like palm groves, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the LORD has planted, like cedars beside the waters.

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  • Amos 2:9

    Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

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  • Psalms 72:7

    May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.

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