Psalm 72:16

Good News Translation

May there be plenty of grain in the land; may the hills be covered with crops, as fruitful as those of Lebanon. May the cities be filled with people, like fields full of grass.

Cross References

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore; they ate and drank, and were happy.

Job 5:25

You will have as many children as there are blades of grass in a pasture.

Job 8:7

All the wealth you lost will be nothing compared with what God will give you then.

Psalm 104:16

The cedars of Lebanon get plenty of rain— the Lord's own trees, which he planted.

Psalm 72:6

May the king be like rain on the fields, like showers falling on the land.

Isaiah 29:17

As the saying goes, before long the dense forest will become farmland, and the farmland will go back to forest.

Isaiah 30:23

Whenever you plant your crops, the Lord will send rain to make them grow and will give you a rich harvest, and your livestock will have plenty of pasture.

Isaiah 32:15

But once more God will send us his spirit. The wasteland will become fertile, and fields will produce rich crops.

Isaiah 32:20

How happy everyone will be with plenty of water for the crops and safe pasture everywhere for the donkeys and cattle.

Isaiah 35:2

The desert will sing and shout for joy; it will be as beautiful as the Lebanon Mountains and as fertile as the fields of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see the Lord's splendor, see his greatness and power.

Jeremiah 33:22

I will increase the number of descendants of my servant David and the number of priests from the tribe of Levi, so that it will be as impossible to count them as it is to count the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore.”

Acts 1:15

A few days later there was a meeting of the believers, about a hundred and twenty in all, and Peter stood up to speak.

Acts 2:41

Many of them believed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day.

Acts 4:4

But many who heard the message believed; and the number grew to about five thousand.

Revelation 7:14

“I don't know, sir. You do,” I answered. He said to me, “These are the people who have come safely through the terrible persecution. They have washed their robes and made them white with the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked, and there was an enormous crowd—no one could count all the people! They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood in front of the throne and of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.