May there be abundant grain throughout the land, flourishing even on the hilltops. May the fruit trees flourish like the trees of Lebanon, and may the people thrive like grass in a field.
Parallel translations
- WEB Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
- KJV 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.
- BSB May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.
- NKJV There will be an abundance of grain in the earth, On the top of the mountains; Its fruit shall wave like Lebanon; And those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
- NASB ¶May there be abundance of grain on the earth on top of the mountains; Its fruit will wave like the cedars of Lebanon; And may those from the city flourish like the vegetation of the earth.
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Under his reign grain abounds throughout the land and its fruit flourishes like the cedars of Lebanon.
Overview
The image is of overflowing agricultural blessing and vigorous growth even on the mountaintops. Abundance and fruitfulness mark the king's domain. This pictures the fruitful blessing of the messianic kingdom, where Christ's reign brings life and increase to all things (John 15:5).
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- 1 Kgs 4:20Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
- Rev 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
- Acts 1:15In these days, Peter stood up in the middle of the disciples (and the number of names was about one hundred twenty), and said,
- Job 5:25You shall know also that your offspring shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
- Isa 2:2–3It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
- Ps 92:12–14The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
- 1 Cor 3:6–9I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
- Ps 104:16Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;
- Job 8:7Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
- Hos 14:5–7I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
- Mark 16:15–16He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.
- Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
- Isa 44:3–5For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:
- Isa 32:15Until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.
- Ps 72:6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
- Isa 32:20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.
- Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
- Isa 35:2It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
- Matt 13:31–33He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;
- Isa 30:23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
- Jer 33:22As the army of the sky can’t be counted, neither the sand of the sea measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.’”
- Isa 29:17Isn’t it yet a very little while, and Lebanon will be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field will be regarded as a forest?
- Rev 7:14I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
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