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12 The righteous flourish like the palm tree
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.(A)

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They are like trees
    planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
    and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.(A)

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They shall be like a tree planted by water,
    sending out its roots by the stream.
It shall not fear when heat comes,
    and its leaves shall stay green;
in the year of drought it is not anxious,
    and it does not cease to bear fruit.(A)

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16 The trees of the field[a] are watered abundantly,
    the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

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Footnotes

  1. 104.16 Gk: Heb trees of the Lord

But I am like a green olive tree
    in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God
    forever and ever.(A)

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I will be like the dew to Israel;
    he shall blossom like the lily;
    he shall strike root like the forests of Lebanon.[a](A)
His shoots shall spread out;
    his beauty shall be like the olive tree
    and his fragrance like that of Lebanon.(B)

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  1. 14.5 Cn: Heb like Lebanon

Like palm groves that stretch far away,
    like gardens beside a river,
like aloes that the Lord has planted,
    like cedar trees beside the waters.(A)

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Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them,
    whose height was like the height of cedars
    and who was as strong as oaks;
I destroyed his fruit above
    and his roots beneath.(A)

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22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat,
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.(A)

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In his days may righteousness flourish
    and peace abound, until the moon is no more.(A)

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13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;
    instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle,
and it shall be to the Lord for a memorial,
    for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.(A)

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though the wicked sprout like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever,(A)

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29 He carved the walls of the house all around about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, in the inner and outer rooms.

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33 He would speak of trees, from the cedar that is in the Lebanon to the hyssop that grows in the wall; he would speak of animals, and birds, and reptiles, and fish.

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Mountains and all hills,
    fruit trees and all cedars!(A)

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