Psalm 72:6 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: As showers that water the earth.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ May he [Solomon as a type of King David's greater Son] be like rain that comes down upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

Common English Bible

⁶ Let him fall like rain upon fresh-cut grass, like showers that water the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Therefore, arrogance has held on to them. They have been covered with their iniquity and impiety.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!

Psalm 72:6 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 23:4

And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, Even a morning without clouds; As the tender grass springing out of the earth By clear shining after rain.

Psalm 65:10

Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: Thou settlest the furrows thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers: Thou blessest the springing thereof.

Proverbs 16:15

In the light of the king's countenance is life; And his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

Proverbs 19:12

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favour is as dew upon the grass.

Isaiah 5:6

and I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Hosea 6:3

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Micah 5:6

And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My doctrine shall drop as the rain, My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender herb, And as the showers upon the grass: