Psalm 72:16 - The Scriptures 1998

Let there be plenty of grain in the earth, On the top of the mountains, Let its fruit wave like Leḇ

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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

Yehuḏ

Job 5:25

and shall know that your seed are many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

Job 8:7

Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.

Psalm 104:16

The trees of יהוה  are satisfied, The cedars of Leḇ

Psalm 72:6

Let Him come down like rain upon the mown grass, Like showers, watering the earth.

Isaiah 29:17

Is it not yet a little while, and Leḇ

Isaiah 30:23

And He shall give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth. And it shall be fat and rich, your cattle grazing in an enlarged pasture in that day,

Isaiah 32:15

until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness shall become garden-land, and the garden-land be reckoned as a forest.

Isaiah 32:20

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the foot of the ox and the donkey.

Isaiah 35:2

It blossoms much and rejoices, even with joy and singing. The esteem of Leḇ

Jeremiah 33:22

‘As the host of the heavens is not counted, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I increase the descendants of Dawiḏ

Acts 1:15

And in those days Kĕ

Acts 2:41

Then those, indeed, who gladly received his word, were immersed. And on that day about three thousand beings were added to them.

Acts 4:4

But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men became about five thousand.

Revelation 7:14

And I said to him, “Master, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those coming out of the great distress, having washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked and saw a great crowd which no one was able to count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands,