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Psalm 72:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Let him be as helpful as rain that refreshes the meadows and the ground.

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is like the sunrise on a cloudless day, or like rain that sparkles on the grass.”

You water all its fields and level the lumpy ground. You send showers of rain to soften the soil and help the plants sprout.

When a ruler is happy and pleased with you, it's like refreshing rain, and you will live.

An angry king roars like a lion, but when a king is pleased, it's like dew on the crops.

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor hoed; it will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Let's do our best to know the LORD. His coming is as certain as the morning sun; he will refresh us like rain renewing the earth in the springtime.

whose strong army will defeat the nation of Assyria. Yes, our leaders will rescue us, if those Assyrians dare to invade our land.

Israel, I will teach you. My words will be like gentle rain on tender young plants, or like dew on the grass.