Psalms 72:16

World English Bible (2000)

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 4:20 : 20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
  • Job 5:25 : 25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
  • Job 8:7 : 7 Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
  • Ps 72:6 : 6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
  • Ps 92:12-14 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts. 14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
  • Ps 104:16 : 16 Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
  • Isa 2:2-3 : 2 It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it. 3 Many peoples shall go and say, "Come, let's go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.
  • Isa 29:17 : 17 Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
  • Isa 30:23 : 23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
  • Isa 32:15 : 15 Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
  • Isa 32:20 : 20 Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
  • Isa 35:2 : 2 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh's glory, the excellence of our God.
  • Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring: 4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. 5 One will say, 'I am Yahweh's;' and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand 'to Yahweh,' and honor the name of Israel."
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.
  • Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon. 6 His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon. 7 Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
  • Matt 13:31-33 : 31 He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; 32 which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches." 33 He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."
  • Mark 16:15-16 : 15 He said to them, "Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • Acts 1:15 : 15 In these days, Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
  • Acts 2:41 : 41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
  • Acts 4:4 : 4 But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • 1 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.
  • Rev 7:9 : 9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
  • Rev 7:14 : 14 I told him, "My lord, you know." He said to me, "These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb's blood.

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  • 15They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

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

    7In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

    8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

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    5I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

    6His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

    7Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.

  • 2It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh's glory, the excellence of our God.

  • 17His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

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    12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

    13They are planted in Yahweh's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

    14They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

  • 23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

  • 6In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.

  • 12"For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

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    3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

  • 2His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

  • 8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  • 13For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

  • 3The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

  • 12The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

  • 27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

  • 6Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree," says Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 6As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

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    6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

    7with which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

  • 12For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.

  • 16he will dwell on high. His place of defense will be the fortress of rocks. His bread will be supplied. His waters will be sure.

  • 12They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

  • 8But you, mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.

  • 25The hay is removed, and the new growth appears, the grasses of the hills are gathered in.

  • 9mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;

  • 26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

  • 17Isn't it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?

  • 37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.

  • 23in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of its branches shall they dwell.

  • 11For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

  • 12Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

  • 24The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.

  • 21Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

  • 15for the chief things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

  • 4You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

  • 5May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

  • 6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

  • 9The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

  • 30I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

  • 4He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

  • 33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

  • 11But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

  • 5Your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.