Psalms 72:16
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.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 72 connects to 10 cross-references. A royal psalm of Solomon — or for Solomon — praying for the king to have divine justice, care for the poor and oppressed, and dominion from sea to sea. Distant kings are to bring tribute; the poor are to …
Other Translations
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.
There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.
May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.
Cross References
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making …
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established …
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, …
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful …