Psalm 72:16 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

¹⁶ Of corn an handful in the earth on tops of mountains high, With prosp'rous fruit shall shake, like trees on Lebanon that be. The city shall be flourishing, her citizens abound In number shall, like to the grass that grows upon the ground.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ I considered, so that I might know this. It is a hardship before me,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

Psalm 72:16 Cross References

Psalm 104:16

The trees of God are full of sap; the cedars that do stand In Lebanon, which planted were by his almighty hand.

Psalm 72:6

Like rain on mown grass he shall drop, or show'rs on earth that fall.