Psalm 72:6

New English Translation

He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:4

is like the light of morning when the sun comes up, a morning in which there are no clouds. He is like the brightness after rain that produces grass from the earth.

Psalm 65:10

You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of the king’s face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds of the spring rain.

Proverbs 19:12

A king’s wrath is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

Hosea 6:3

So let us acknowledge him! Let us seek to acknowledge the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land.”

Micah 5:6

They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with a drawn sword. Our king will rescue us from the Assyrians should they attempt to invade our land and try to set foot in our territory.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.