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Psalm 67:6

The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

4Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah.
6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.
7God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
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The earth's harvest leads into the words “our own God,” joining the sight of provision with the people's confidence in the God they know.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.Both connect a harvest with God's blessing, with Genesis naming Isaac's hundredfold yield from the land he sowed.
Leviticus 26:4The land yielding its increase appears in both passages, promised with rain in Leviticus and celebrated as received in the psalm.
Psalm 85:12Yes, the LORD will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.Both psalms connect the land's increase with God's goodness, though Psalm 67 speaks of a harvest already yielded.
Exodus 3:15God said moreover to Moses, “You shall tell the children of Israel this, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God …The psalm's “our own God” shares with Exodus the recognition of God through his relationship with a particular people.
Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will …The psalm names God as the people's own God; Jeremiah expresses that relationship through God's covenant with Israel.
Psalm 85:9–12Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.Both express confidence in God's care for his people, naming blessing in Psalm 67 and salvation in Psalm 85.
Ezekiel 34:26–27I 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.God's blessing is named in both passages, alongside the earth's increase in the psalm and showers in Ezekiel.
Genesis 17:7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and …Both speak of God in relationship with his people, while Genesis names his covenant extending to Abraham's offspring.
Isaiah 30:23–24He 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 …Both connect the ground's increase with God's provision, with Isaiah describing rain for seed and plentiful bread.
Hosea 2:21–22It will happen in that day, that I will respond,” says the LORD. “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;Both mention the earth in relation to God; Hosea describes God's response, while the psalm celebrates the earth's increase.
Joel 2:22Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness spring up, for the tree bears its fruit. The fig tree and the vine yield their …Both describe the earth producing food, with Joel naming fruit trees and vines where the psalm speaks of increase.
Jeremiah 31:1“At that time,” says the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”The psalm's “our own God” shares Jeremiah's language of belonging between God and his people.
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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 67:6 aloud before one meal

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Encouragement

Food on a table has a place in praise. The song recognizes what the earth has yielded and looks ahead with confidence that God will bless his people.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).