Psalm 72:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

May there be abundance of grain in the land; may it wave on the tops of the mountains; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field.

Cross References

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.

Job 5:25

You shall know that your descendants will be many and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

Job 8:7

Though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

Psalm 104:16

The trees of the field are watered abundantly, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

Isaiah 29:17

Shall not Lebanon in a very little while become a fruitful field and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?

Isaiah 30:23

He will give rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plenteous. On that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures,

Isaiah 32:15

until a spirit from on high is poured out on us, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

Isaiah 32:20

Happy will you be who sow beside every stream, who let the ox and the donkey range freely.

Isaiah 35:2

it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and shouting. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the majesty of our God.]]

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will increase the offspring of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,

Acts 2:41

So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added.

Acts 4:4

But many of those who heard the word believed, and they numbered about five thousand.

Revelation 7:14

I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.