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Psalms 72:3
3May the mountains bring well-being to the people and the hills, righteousness.
Psalms 72:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
- New International Version (NIV)May the mountains bring prosperity to the people, the hills the fruit of righteousness.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!
- New King James Version (NKJV)The mountains will bring peace to the people, And the little hills, by righteousness.
Context of Psalms 72:3
1God, give your justice to the king and your righteousness to the king’s son. 2He will judge your people with righteousness and your afflicted ones with justice. May the mountains bring well-being to the people and the hills, righteousness. 4May he vindicate the afflicted among the people, help the poor, and crush the oppressor. 5May they fear you while the sun endures and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
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יִשְׂא֤וּ הָרִ֓ים שָׁ֘ל֥וֹם לָעָ֑ם וּ֝גְבָע֗וֹת בִּצְדָקָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 72:3
- Psalms 72:16May there be plenty of grain in the land; may it wave on the tops of the mountains. May its crops be like Lebanon. May people flourish in the cities like the grass of the field.
- Isaiah 32:16Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the orchard.
- Isaiah 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the herald, who proclaims peace, who brings news of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
- Ezekiel 34:13I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them to their own soil. I will shepherd them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the land.
- Joel 3:18In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will flow with water, and a spring will issue from the Lord’s house, watering the Valley of Acacias.
- Psalms 65:12The wilderness pastures overflow, and the hills are robed with joy.
- Psalms 85:10Faithful love and truth will join together; righteousness and peace will embrace.
- Psalms 96:11Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and all that fills it resound.
- Psalms 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands; let the mountains shout together for joy
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city — to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.
- 2 Corinthians 5:19That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
Commentaries on Psalms 72:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The mountains shall bring peace - Perhaps mountains and hills are here taken in their figurative sense, to signify princes and petty governors; and it is a prediction that all governors of provinces and magistrates should administer equal justice in their several departments and jurisdictions; so that universal peace should be preserved, and the people be every where prosperous; for שלום shalom signifies both peace and prosperity, for without the former…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The mountains shall bring peace to the people - The idea in this verse is that the land would be full of peace and the fruits of peace. All parts of it would be covered with the evidences that it was a land of quietness and security, where people could pursue their callings in safety, and enjoy the fruit of their labors. On the mountains and on all the little hills in the land there would be abundant harvests, the result of peace (so strongly in contrast…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 2-17Verses 2-17 This is a prophecy of the kingdom of Christ; many passages in it cannot be applied to the reign of Solomon. There were righteousness and peace at first in the administration of his government; but, before the end of his reign, there were troubles and unrighteousness. The kingdom here spoken of is to last as long as the sun, but Solomon's was soon at an end. Even the Jewish expositors understood it of the kingdom of the Messiah. Observe many…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Justice makes the world fruitful, abundant, harmonious, and good (see Isaiah 32:16–17).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. As mountains and hills are not usually productive, they are here selected to show the abundance of peace, being represented as bringing--or, literally, "bearing" it as a produce. by righteousness--that is, by means of his eminently just and good methods of ruling.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 72
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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