Fruitful growth in the pictures of trees in the Psalms:
Psalm 1:3 (a godly person) is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.
Psalm 92:12 The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green,
15 to declare that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
Alec Motyer's note for verse 14: "The world's ambition is to 'stay young'; the Bible's, to grow old fruitfully. Deuteronomy 34:7."
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