Psalms 72:16

And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.

17until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end.

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Cross References

Job 8:7Though then thy beginning should be small, yet thy end should be unspeakably great.

Isaiah 2:2For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be + 2:2 Or, conspicuous.glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.

Isaiah 30:23Then shall there be rain to the seed of thy land; and the bread of the fruit of thy land shall be plenteous and rich: and thy cattle shall feed in that day in a fertile and spacious place.

Isaiah 32:20Blessed are they that sow by every water, where the ox and ass tread.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 72:3-18

The Kingdom of Messiah. 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. 4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. 7 In his days shall the righteous… Read the whole commentary →

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