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Psalms 67:6

God, our God, bless us. Let our land give us a great harvest.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Faith;   Jesus, the Christ;   Thompson Chain Reference - Agriculture;   Agriculture-Horticulture;   Increase;   The Topic Concordance - Blessings;   Harvest;   Praise;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Numbers, Book of;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Dispersion, the;   Intercession;   Psalms, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
The earth has yielded its produce;God, our God, blesses us.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God, blesses us.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
[Then] shall the earth bryng foorth her increase: and the Lorde our Lord will geue vs his blessing.
Darby Translation
The earth will yield her increase; God, our God, will bless us:
New King James Version
Then the earth shall yield her increase; God, our own God, shall bless us.
Literal Translation
The earth has given its increase; God, our own God, shall bless us.
World English Bible
The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
King James Version (1611)
Then shall the earth yeeld her increase; and God, euen our owne God, shall blesse vs.
King James Version
Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
God (euen oure owne God) geue vs his blessinge, that the earth maye bringe forth hir increase
Amplified Bible
The earth has yielded its harvest [as evidence of His approval]; God, our God, blesses us.
American Standard Version
The earth hath yielded its increase: God, even our own God, will bless us.
Bible in Basic English
The earth has given her increase; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing.
Update Bible Version
The earth has yielded its increase: God, even our own God, will bless us.
Webster's Bible Translation
[Then] shall the earth yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our own God, will bless us.
New English Translation
The earth yields its crops. May God, our God, bless us!
Contemporary English Version
Our God has blessed the earth with a wonderful harvest!
Complete Jewish Bible
Let the peoples give thanks to you, God; let the peoples give thanks to you, all of them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall the earth bring foorth her increase, and God, euen our God shall blesse vs.
George Lamsa Translation
Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
Hebrew Names Version
The eretz has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Let the peoples give thanks unto Thee, O God; let the peoples give thanks unto Thee, all of them.
New Living Translation
Then the earth will yield its harvests, and God, our God, will richly bless us.
New Life Bible
The earth has given its fruit. God, our God, will bring good to us.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The earth has yielded her fruit; let God, our God bless us.
English Revised Version
The earth hath yielded her increase: God, even our own God, shall bless us.
Berean Standard Bible
The earth has yielded its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.
New Revised Standard
The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Earth, will have given her increase, God, our own God, will bless us:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(66-7) The earth hath yielded her fruit. May God, our God bless us,
Lexham English Bible
The earth has yielded its produce. God, our God, will bless us.
English Standard Version
The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, shall bless us.
New American Standard Bible
The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God, blesses us.
New Century Version
The land has given its crops. God, our God, blesses us.
Good News Translation
The land has produced its harvest; God, our God, has blessed us.
Christian Standard Bible®
The earth has produced its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, puplis knouleche to thee, alle puplis knouleche to thee;
Young's Literal Translation
Earth hath given her increase, God doth bless us -- our God,
Revised Standard Version
The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.

Contextual Overview

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To the director: With instruments. A song of praise.

God, show mercy to us and bless us. Please accept us! Selah 2 Let everyone on earth learn about you. Let every nation see how you save people. 3 May people praise you, God! May all people praise you. 4 May all nations rejoice and be happy because you judge people fairly. You rule over every nation. 5 May the people praise you, God! May all people praise you. 6 God, our God, bless us. Let our land give us a great harvest. 7 May God bless us, and may all people on earth fear and respect him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Then: Psalms 85:9-12, Leviticus 26:4, Isaiah 1:19, Isaiah 30:23, Isaiah 30:24, Ezekiel 34:26, Ezekiel 34:27, Hosea 2:21, Hosea 2:22, 1 Corinthians 3:6-9

our own: Psalms 48:14, Genesis 17:7, Exodus 3:15, Jeremiah 31:1, Jeremiah 31:33

Reciprocal: Genesis 26:12 - an hundredfold Genesis 32:26 - thou bless Leviticus 25:19 - General Psalms 24:5 - receive Psalms 85:12 - our land Psalms 91:2 - my God Psalms 95:7 - For he Isaiah 4:2 - the fruit Isaiah 19:25 - the Lord Ezekiel 36:8 - ye shall Joel 2:22 - for the tree Zechariah 8:12 - the seed Acts 3:26 - sent

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Then] shall the earth yield her increase,.... Not literally the land of Israel, as in some copies of the Targum, and as Kimchi interprets it; see Leviticus 26:3; but mystically and spiritually the church of God in the times of the Messiah, Ezekiel 34:23; the word of God preached in the world is the seed sown in it; converts to Christ are the increase or fruit of it; and the church is God's husbandry, where it is yielded or brought forth; and this increase is of God, and is owing to the efficacy of his grace attending the ministration of the word, 1 Corinthians 3:6; it had its accomplishment in part in the first times of the Gospel, when it was preached by the apostles throughout the earth, and brought forth fruit everywhere, Colossians 1:5; and has been fulfilling more or less ever since, and will appear more abundantly in the latter day; a large increase and a plentiful harvest of souls shall be brought in, both Jews and Gentiles: or this may be understood of the fruitfulness of believers in Christ, who may be called "earth", because of their common original from the earth with the rest of mankind; because they are inhabitants of the earth; and because they have earthly as well as heavenly principles in them; but more especially because they are the good ground on whom the seed of the word falls and becomes fruitful; or are the earth which drinks in the rain of the Gospel, and of grace, and brings forth fruit meet for them, by whom it is dressed, and receives blessing of God, Matthew 13:23; these yield the fruits of the Spirit, increase in grace, and abound in the exercise of it; bring forth fruits meet for repentance, being filled with the fruits of righteousness by Christ; for the increase and fruit yielded by them are owing to the grace of God, to their grafting into Christ the vine, and to the influence of the blessed Spirit. Some of the ancients understand this of the incarnation of Christ; see

Psalms 85:11; then "the earth" is the Virgin Mary, who was, as to her original, of the earth, earthly; of whose earthly substance Christ took flesh, and is called the fruit of her womb; yea, the fruit of the earth, Luke 1:42; for though he is the Lord from heaven, as to his divine nature, and came down from thence, not by change of place, but by assumption of nature; yet, as to his human nature, he was made of a woman, and is the seed of the woman, the promised seed, in whom all nations of the earth were to be blessed; and it here follows:

[and] God, [even] our own God, shall bless us; not as the God of nature and providence only; but as the God of grace, as a covenant God in Christ, in which sense he is peculiarly his people's own God, so as he is not others; and as such he blesses them with all spiritual blessings in Christ: or the repetition of the word "God", with the affix "our own", may denote the certainty of the divine blessing, the assurance had of it, and the great affection of the persons that express it: and some think, because the word is repeated three times in this verse and Psalms 68:7, respect is had to the trinity of Persons in the Godhead; God the Father blesses his people in Christ with the blessings of justification, pardon, adoption, and eternal life: the Son, who is Immanuel, God with us, God in our nature, our own God, God manifest in the flesh; he blesses with the same blessings of grace, peace, and eternal happiness; he was raised up of God as man and Mediator, and sent to bless his people, Acts 3:26.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then shall the earth yield her increase - The word rendered “increase” - יבול yebûl - means properly produce, or that which the earth produces when properly cultivated. It is rendered “increase,” as here, in Leviticus 26:4, Leviticus 26:20; Deuteronomy 32:22; Judges 6:4; Job 20:28; Psalms 78:46; Psalms 85:12; Ezekiel 34:27; Zechariah 8:12; and fruit, in Deuteronomy 11:17; Habakkuk 3:17; Haggai 1:10. It does not elsewhere cccur. The Hebrew verb here is in the past tense - “has yielded her increase,” but the connection seems to demand that it shall be rendered in the future, as the entire psalm pertains to the future - to the diffusion of the knowledge of the way of God, Psalms 67:2; to the desire that the nations might praise him, Psalms 67:3-5; and to the fact that God would bless the people, Psalms 67:6-7. Thus understood, the idea is, that the prevalence of true religion in the world would be connected with prosperity, or that it would tend greatly to increase the productions of the earth. This, it would do,

(a) as such an acknowledgment of God would tend to secure the divine favor and blessing on those who cultivate the earth, preventing the necessity, by way of judgment, of cutting off its harvests by blight, and drought, and mildew, by frost, and storm, and destructive insects, caterpillars, and locusts;

(b) as it would lead to a much more extensive and general cultivation of the soil, bringing into the field multitudes, as laborers, to occupy its waste places, who are now idle, or intemperate, or who are cut down by vice and consigned to an early grave.

If all who are now idle were made industrious - as they would be by the influence of true religion; if all who by intemperance are rendered worthless, improvident, and wasteful, were made sober and working people; if all who are withdrawn from cultivating the earth by wars - who are kept in standing armies, consumers and not producers - or who are cut down in battle, should be occupied in tilling the soil, or should become producers in any way; and if all who are now slaves, and whose labor is not worth half as much as that of freemen, should be restored to their equal rights, - the productions of the earth would at once be increased many times beyond the present amount. The prevalence of true religion in the world, arresting the cause of idleness and improvidence, and keeping alive those who are now cut off by vice, by crime, and by the ravages of war, would soon make the whole world assume a different aspect, and would accomplish the prediction of the prophet Isaiah 35:1 that the “wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and that the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.” The earth has never yet been half cultivated. Vast tracts of land are still wholly unsubdued and uninhabited. No part of the earth has yet been made to produce all that it could be made to yield; and no one can estimate what the teeming earth might be made to produce if it were brought under the influence of proper cultivation. As far as the true religion spreads, it will be cultivated; and in the days of the millenium, when the true religion shall be diffused over all continents and islands, the earth will be a vast fruitful field, and much of the beauty and the fertility of Eden be reproduced in every land.

And God, even our own God, shall bless us - The true God; the God whom we adore. That is, He will bless us with this abundant fertility; he will bless us with every needed favor.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 67:6. The earth yield her increase — As the ground was cursed for the sin of man, and the curse was to be removed by Jesus Christ, the fertility of the ground should be influenced by the preaching of the Gospel; for as the people's minds would become enlightened by the truth, they would, in consequence, become capable of making the most beneficial discoveries in arts and sciences, and there should be an especial blessing on the toil of the pious husbandman. Whenever true religion prevails, every thing partakes of its beneficent influence.


 
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