Psalm 72:16
“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.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 72Meaning
Within “Flourishing and blessing,” verse 16 uses abundant grain and flourishing cities to picture the social fruit of righteous governance; this detail advances the unit's argument and should not be detached from the whole psalm.
Read carefully
Read Psalm 72:16 inside its literary unit and the movement of Psalm 72; its imagery and claims are constrained by that context.
Reflection
Respond to the verse's specific emphasis — uses abundant grain and flourishing cities to picture the social fruit of righteous governance — while reading it together with the surrounding lines of Psalm 72.