Revised Literal Translation
Psalms 72:3
3The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by 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
1Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king’s son. 2He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. 4He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. 5They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
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יִשְׂא֤וּ הָרִ֓ים שָׁ֘ל֥וֹם לָעָ֑ם וּ֝גְבָע֗וֹת בִּצְדָקָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 72:3
- Psalms 72:16There shall be an handful of wheat 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.
- Isaiah 32:16Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
- Isaiah 52:7How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
- Ezekiel 34:13And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
- Joel 3:18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of Yhwh, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
- Psalms 65:12They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
- Psalms 85:10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
- Psalms 96:11Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
- Psalms 98:8Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
- Daniel 9:24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
- 2 Corinthians 5:19To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word 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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