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Ps 1:3 King James And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
like a tree-- (Jer 17:7-8).

planted--settled, fast.

by--or, "over."

the rivers--canals for irrigation.

shall prosper--literally, "make prosper," brings to perfection. The basis of this condition and character is given (Psa 32:1).
 
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1 A Psalm of David, Maschil. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
8 For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
16 He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: