Psalm 72:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: As showers that water the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: As showers that water the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

May he [Solomon as a type of King David's greater Son] be like rain that comes down upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

Common English Bible

Let him fall like rain upon fresh-cut grass, like showers that water the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, arrogance has held on to them. They have been covered with their iniquity and impiety.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

Psalm 72:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 23:4

He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, a morning without clouds; when the tender grass springeth out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.

Psalm 65:10

Thou waterest her furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof.

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of the king's countenance is life; And his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Isaiah 5:6

and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Hosea 6:3

And let us know, let us follow on to know the LORD; his going forth is sure as the morning: and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.

Micah 5:6

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our border.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew; As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb: