Psalm 72:6

New Living Translation

May the king’s rule be refreshing like spring rain on freshly cut grass, like the showers that water the earth.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:4

is like the light of morning at sunrise, like a morning without clouds, like the gleaming of the sun on new grass after rain.’

Psalm 65:10

You drench the plowed ground with rain, melting the clods and leveling the ridges. You soften the earth with showers and bless its abundant crops.

Proverbs 16:15

When the king smiles, there is life; his favor refreshes like a spring rain.

Proverbs 19:12

The king’s anger is like a lion’s roar, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed, a place overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.

Hosea 6:3

Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”

Micah 5:6

They will rule Assyria with drawn swords and enter the gates of the land of Nimrod. He will rescue us from the Assyrians when they pour over the borders to invade our land.

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall on you like rain; let my speech settle like dew. Let my words fall like rain on tender grass, like gentle showers on young plants.