Psalm 72:16 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁶ May corn abound throughout the land; on the tops of the hills may it sway. May the crops flourish like Lebanon and thrive like the grass of the field.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ There shall be abundance of grain in the soil upon the top of the mountains [the least fruitful places in the land]; the fruit of it shall wave like [the forests of] Lebanon, and [the inhabitants of] the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Let there be abundant grain in the land. Let it wave on the mountaintops. Let its fruit flourish like Lebanon. Let it thrive like grass on the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ I considered, so that I might know this. It is a hardship before me,

Psalm 72:16 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy.

Job 5:25

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

Job 8:7

Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

Psalm 104:16

The trees of the Lord are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the earth.

Isaiah 29:17

In a very short time, will not Lebanon be turned into a fertile field and the fertile field seem like a forest?

Isaiah 30:23

He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.

Isaiah 32:15

till the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest.

Isaiah 32:20

how blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.

Isaiah 35:2

it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendour of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the Lord, the splendour of our God.

Jeremiah 33:22

I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.” ’

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty)

Acts 2:41

Those who accepted his message were baptised, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Acts 4:4

But many who heard the message believed; so the number of men who believed grew to about five thousand.

Revelation 7:14

I answered, ‘Sir, you know.’ And he said, ‘These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no-one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.