Psalm 72:16

New Century Version

Let the fields grow plenty of grain and the hills be covered with crops. Let the land be as fertile as Lebanon, and let the cities grow like the grass in a field.

Cross References

1 Kings 4:20

There were as many people in Judah and Israel as grains of sand on the seashore. The people ate, drank, and were happy.

Job 5:25

You will know that you will have many children, and your descendants will be like the grass on the earth.

Job 8:7

Where you began will seem unimportant, because your future will be so successful.

Psalm 104:16

The Lord’s trees have plenty of water; they are the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted.

Psalm 72:6

Let him be like rain on the grass, like showers that water the earth.

Isaiah 29:17

In a very short time, Lebanon will become rich farmland, and the rich farmland will seem like a forest.

Isaiah 30:23

At that time the Lord will send rain for the seeds you plant in the ground, and the ground will grow food for you. The harvest will be rich and great, and you will have plenty of food in the fields for your animals.

Isaiah 32:15

This will continue until God pours his Spirit from above upon us. Then the desert will be like a fertile field and the fertile field like a forest.

Isaiah 32:20

But you will be happy as you plant seeds near every stream and as you let your cattle and donkeys wander freely.

Isaiah 35:2

it will have many blooms. It will show its happiness, as if it were shouting with joy. It will be beautiful like the forest of Lebanon, as beautiful as the hill of Carmel and the Plain of Sharon. Everyone will see the glory of the Lord and the splendor of our God.

Jeremiah 33:22

But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the family group of Levi who serve me in the Temple. They will be as many as the stars in the sky that no one can count. They will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore that no one can measure.”

Acts 1:15

During this time there was a meeting of the believers (about one hundred twenty of them). Peter stood up and said,

Acts 2:41

Then those people who accepted what Peter said were baptized. About three thousand people were added to the number of believers that day.

Acts 4:4

But many of those who had heard Peter and John preach believed the things they said. There were now about five thousand in the group of believers.

Revelation 7:14

I answered, “You know, sir.” And the elder said to me, “These are the people who have come out of the great distress. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:9

After the vision of these things I looked, and there was a great number of people, so many that no one could count them. They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language of the earth. They were all standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.