Psalm 72:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ 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

⁶ He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: As showers that water the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ 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)

⁶ He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

Common English Bible

⁶ Let him fall like rain upon fresh-cut grass, like showers that water the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Therefore, arrogance has held on to them. They have been covered with their iniquity and impiety.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ 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: