New English Translation
Psalms 72:3
3The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice.
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
1O God, grant the king the ability to make just decisions! Grant the king’s son the ability to make fair decisions! 2Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably. The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice. 4He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor. 5People will fear you as long as the sun and moon remain in the sky, for generation after generation.
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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 an abundance of grain in the earth; on the tops of the mountains may it sway! May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon! May its crops be as abundant as the grass of the earth!
- Isaiah 32:16Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard.
- Isaiah 52:7How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains the feet of a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
- Ezekiel 34:13I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.
- Joel 3:18On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
- Psalms 65:12The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.
- Psalms 85:10Loyal love and faithfulness meet; deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss.
- Psalms 96:11Let the sky rejoice, and the earth be happy! Let the sea and everything in it shout!
- Psalms 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands! Let the mountains sing in unison
- Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
- 2 Corinthians 5:19In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.
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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