Psalms Chapter 92 verse 12 Holy Bible
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.
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The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon.
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The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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My eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
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The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
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The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.
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Psalms 92 : 12 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. To an Oriental the palm is the queen of trees. "Of all vegetable forms," says Humboldt, "the palm is that to which the prize of beauty has been assigned by the concurrent voice of nations in all ages" ('Aspects of Nature,' vol. 2. p. 20, Engl. trans.). Its stately growth, and graceful form, its perpetual verdure, its lovely and luxuriant fruit, together with its manifold uses (Strabo, 16:1, ยง 14), give it precedence over all other vegetable growths in the eyes that are accustomed to rest upon it. It is rather remarkable that, in the Old Testament, it is used as a figure for beauty only here and in Song of Solomon 7:7. Man, in his most flourishing growth, is ordinarily compared either to the cedar (2 Kings 14:9; Song of Solomon 5:15; Ezekiel 31:3-9; Amos 2:9, etc.)or the olive tree (Judges 9:8, 9; Psalm 52:8; Jeremiah 11:16; Hosea 14:6, etc.). He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon (see, besides the passages already quoted, 2 Kings 19:23; 2 Chronicles 2:8; Jeremiah 22:23; Zechariah 11:1).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Palm tree.--This is the only place where the palm appears as an emblem of moral rectitude and beauty of character, yet its aptness for such comparison has often been noticed. (See Tristram's Natural History of the Bible, p. 384; and comp. Thomson's The Land and the Book, p. 49.)A moral use was more often made of the cedar. Emblem of kingly might, it also became the type of the imperial grandeur of virtuous souls. (See Bible Educator, iii. 379.)The contrast of the palm's perennial verdure, and the cedar's venerable age, an age measured not by years, but by centuries, with the fleeting moments of the brief day of the grass, to which the wicked are compared (Psalm 92:7), is very striking, as striking as that in Psalms 1 between the empty husk and the flourishing fruit-tree.
