Psalms 72:6

WEB

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

KJV

⁶He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

BSB

⁶May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.

FBV

⁶May his reign be like rain falling on new grass,^[+] like showers that water the earth.

Extra References

Hosea 6:3

³Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, the LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Deuteronomy 32:2

²My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

2 Samuel 23:4

⁴shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’

Psalms 65:10

¹⁰You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

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.

Isaiah 14:3-5

³It will happen in the day that the LORD will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, ⁴that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!” ⁵The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

Proverbs 16:15

¹⁵In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.

Proverbs 19:12

¹²The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Ezekiel 34:23-26

²³I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd. ²⁴I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them. I, the LORD, have spoken it.

²⁵“‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. ²⁶I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing. I will cause the shower to come down in its season. There will be showers of blessing.

Isaiah 5:6

⁶I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”