Psalms 72:16

And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me, 1

LXX2012 (US English)

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 your children. 1

17until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 4:2027 And thus the officers provided king Solomon: and they execute every one in his month all the orders for the table of the king, they + 4:20 Gr. change. omit nothing.

Job 8:7Though then your beginning should be small, yet your 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 your land; and the bread of the fruit of your land shall be plenteous and rich: and your 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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