What Does Psalm 67:6 Mean in the King James?
Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The earth’s yield and God’s blessing are one movement: favor takes visible form in what the ground brings forth.
THE MEANING
Your provision arrives through a living world that yields, and God’s blessing meets you within that tangible increase. Blessing is not detached from the ground and the food it gives.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that material provision belongs to a realm separate from divine blessing.
THE ROOT
יְבָרְכֵנוּ
yevarekhenu
GROWS FROM
ברך
Bless; the word family also includes bending the knee.
“bless” in this verse is yevarekhenu. The consonants shared by blessing and knee give the word a bodily register: blessing bends toward embodied life. Here, God’s blessing stands beside the earth’s crop, placing divine favor within tangible provision.
ALSO GROWS
berekh: Knee; the bodily bend.
בֶּרֶךְ
Its shared root gives blessing a physical register rather than leaving it as an abstraction.
berakhah: Blessing or benediction.
בְּרָכָה
This noun names the same root as something received; the verse describes blessing as reaching into lived conditions.
יְבוּלָהּ
yevulah
GROWS FROM
יבל
Flow, bring forth, or carry along.
The root presents the earth’s increase as what it brings forth, not a detached stockpile. Its yovel branch names Jubilee, where land and holdings return; the verse’s harvest sits within a larger rhythm of yield and release.
ALSO GROWS
yevul: Produce, yield, or crop.
יְבוּל
This is the noun behind the verse’s increase: what the earth brings forth.
yovel: Ram’s horn; the signal and year of Jubilee.
יוֹבֵל
This branch links the root to Jubilee, a cycle of release and return for land and holdings.
THE PATTERN
The earth’s fruitfulness appears as a tangible expression of God’s provision.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.THE THREAD
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.The same barak (ברך, barak; bless) root appears beside fruit from both body and ground. It makes explicit the link Psalm 67:6 holds in a compact line: the earth yields, and God blesses.
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