Psalm 72:16 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

There shall be abundance of grain in the soil upon the top of the mountains [the least fruitful places in the land]; the fruit of it shall wave like [the forests of] Lebanon, and [the inhabitants of] the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Common English Bible

Let there be abundant grain in the land. Let it wave on the mountaintops. Let its fruit flourish like Lebanon. Let it thrive like grass on the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I considered, so that I might know this. It is a hardship before me,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

Psalm 72:16 Cross References

1 Kings 4:20

5 And Juda and Israel dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.

Job 5:25

As the sand of the sea this would appear heavier: therefore my words are full of sorrow :

Job 8:7

2 When it is yet in flower, and is not plucked up with the hand, it withereth before all herbs.

Psalm 104:16

3 Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.

Psalm 72:6

3 He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor.

Isaiah 29:17

WOE to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sill:

Isaiah 30:23

1 For at the voice of the Lord the Assyrian shall fear being struck with the rod.

Isaiah 32:15

At the voice of the angel the people fled, and at the lifting up thyself the nations are scattered.

Isaiah 32:20

The ways are made desolate, no one passeth by the road, the covenant is made void, he hath rejected the cities, he hath not regarded the men.

Isaiah 35:2

0 And the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and shall come into Sion with praise, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Jeremiah 33:22

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Sedecias king of Juda: Thus saith the Lord to thee: Thou shalt not die by the sword.

Acts 1:15

3 And they appointed two, Joseph, called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

Acts 2:41

And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb, was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple.

Acts 4:4

2 Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

Revelation 7:14

And the seven angels, who had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound the trumpet.

Revelation 7:9

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour.