Psalm 72:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ Let there be plenty of grain in the earth, On the top of the mountains, Let its fruit wave like Leḇanon, And those of the city flourish like grass of the earth.

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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

1 Kings 4:20

Yehuḏah and Yisra’ĕl were as numerous as the sand by the sea, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

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 Leḇanon which He planted,

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 Leḇanon shall be turned into garden land, and garden land be reckoned as a forest?

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 Leḇanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Karmel and Sharon. They shall see the esteem of יהוה, the excellency of our Elohim.

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 My servant and the Lĕwites who attend upon Me.’ ”

Acts 1:15

And in those days Kĕpha, standing up in the midst of the taught ones – and there was a gathering of about a hundred and twenty – said,

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,