Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.
Psalm 72:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may men blossom forth from the cities like the grass of the field! More versionsKing 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: |
Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.
You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted.
May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!
Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest?
And he will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous. In that day your cattle will graze in large pastures;
until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.
Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the ass range free.
it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”
In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said,
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
But many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,