Psalms 72:6 Cross References - Thomson

⁶ Let him descend like rain on a fleece; and like showers gently falling on the ground.

² Let my doctrine be expected like rain, And my words distil as the dew; Like gentle rain on the tender herb, And like a heavy shower on the grass.

⁴ [p] With the light of the God of the morning. [d] David. [p] Prophet. [d] Let the Sun rise in the morning betimes. [p] Is not the Lord gone forth with splendour? [d] Yes, like the spring of grass on the earth after rain;

¹⁰ By these showers on it, it will be gladdened; and will give a spring to vegetation.

¹⁵ The son of a king is in the light of life: and they who are acceptable to him are as an evening cloud.

¹² The threat of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but his favour is like dew on the grass.

⁶ and I will abandon my vineyard that it may neither be pruned nor digged; and brambles shall overrun it as a waste; and I will give a charge to the clouds not to shed rain upon it.

³ And it shall come to pass in that day when the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and thy grief; from that hard servitude of thine, with which thou hast served them, ⁴ that thou wilt take up this funeral song over the king of Babylon: [[c]the chorus] [c] How the extortioner is laid to rest! and a stop put to his demands! ⁵ The Lord hath broken the yoke of the sinners; the yoke of the rulers.

²³ And I will set up over them one shepherd who shall feed them, even my servant David, who shall be their shepherd: ²⁴ and I the Lord will be their God; and David shall be chief among them. I the Lord have spoken; ²⁵ and with this David I will make a covenant of peace, and remove the wild beasts entirely out of the land; so that they may dwell in the desert and sleep in the Woods. ²⁶ And I will place them around my mountain, and give them the rain the rain of blessing:

³ Let us acknowledge; let us continue our pursuit to know the Lord; sure as the morning we shall find him. He will come like rain for us; like the former and latter rain for the earth."

⁵ I will be to Israel like dew. He shall bloom like a lily, and shoot out his roots like Lebanon. ⁶ His branches shall spread; and he shall be like a fruitful olive tree, and like that of Lebanon shall be his fragrance. ⁷ They shall return and dwell under his shade; they shall live and be plentifully fed with corn. And he shall flourish like a vine and the memorial of him shall be like the wine of Lebanon.