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Psalm 92 Bible study: Fruit in old age
In Psalm 92 the wicked "spring up as the grass" (92:7) and the righteous "flourish like the palm tree" (92:12) with one Hebrew verb, parach. What differs is what lasts: the wicked "will be destroyed forever" (92:7), and the righteous "will still produce fruit in old age" (92:14).
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“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.”
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“Psalm 92 says the righteous will still produce fruit in old age.”
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What's really going on
A song for the Sabbath day
The title reads, "A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day" (92:1), and it says no more than that. In the Psalms this is the only place the word Sabbath comes, in the WEB and in the Hebrew (tap Sabbath). After the title the psalm never names the Sabbath again. It gives thanks: "It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, Most High" (92:1), "to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night" (92:2). And it sings of what the LORD has done: "For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands" (92:4) (tap work), "How great are your works, LORD! Your thoughts are very deep" (92:5) (tap thoughts). The Sabbath command gives the day's reason in the LORD's own making and resting: "for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day" (Exodus 20:11). The psalm doesn't say why it is the Sabbath's song, and these notes don't guess. Psalm 59's notes set 92:2 beside the other psalms that have your loving kindness and in the morning together.
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The Hebrew word behind it
פָּרַחparachsay pa-RAKH
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "bud, sprout, shoot". Strong's: "to break forth as a bud, i.e. bloom". The psalm has it three times: of the wicked, "though the wicked spring up as the grass" (92:7), where the WEB gives it as spring up, and of the righteous, "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree" (92:12) and "They will flourish in our God’s courts" (92:13). The flourish of 92:7 is another verb. The Psalms have parach four times in Hebrew; the other has the same two words as 92:12, righteous and flourish: "In his days, the righteous shall flourish" (Psalm 72:7). Numbers has it of Aaron's rod (Numbers 17:8), where its notes study it.
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Psalm 92 Bible study questions
- 1The psalm tells of God's loving kindness in the morning and his faithfulness every night (92:2). What is one thing you could thank him for at the start and the end of a day this week?
- 2"A senseless man doesn’t know" (92:6) that the flourishing of the wicked doesn't last (92:7). When has someone else's success made it hard for you to trust God, and what helped?
- 3"They will still produce fruit in old age" (92:14). Who is someone older you know whose life still bears fruit, and what have you learned from them?
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