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Psalms 92:14
In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist, in a Sabbath song, describes the righteous person as a tree planted in the house of the LORD. This verse is the third in a four-line portrait (vv.12–15) of what such a life looks like from planting to old age.
The words — דּשנים (deshenim) is "fat," not merely "healthy" — it implies abundance, fullness, a surplus beyond mere survival.
The thread — Jeremiah 17:8 uses the same tree image: planted by waters, it does not fear the heat and its leaf stays green. Isaiah 46:4 and Psalm 71:18 both extend God's sustaining presence into old age and gray hair.
Why it lands — The verse stakes a claim on the end of a life, not just its middle. It asks whether your faith is something that withers or something that still produces when the years are done.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
Cross-references
- Isaiah 46:4 Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
- 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.
- Psalms 71:18 Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, O God, until I proclaim Your power to the next generation, Your might to all who are to come.
- John 15:2 He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.
- Philippians 1:11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Job 17:9 Yet a righteous one holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.
- 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.
- Matthew 3:10 The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- Proverbs 4:18 The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
- Ezekiel 47:12 Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”