Psalms Chapter 72 verse 3 Holy Bible
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness.
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May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.
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The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, by righteousness.
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The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
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The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
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The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
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The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness.
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Psalms 72 : 3 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. Through the general establishment prominent features.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) The mountains . . .--Better, literally, Let the mountains and the hills bring forth to the people peace in (or by) righteousness. This imperative sense, instead of the future, is by most modern commentators preserved throughout the psalm. The LXX. give it here and in Psalm 72:17, but else use the future.The verb here employed (properly meaning "lift up") is used in Ezekiel 17:8, for "bearing fruit," and in Isaiah 32:17 peace is described as the natural work or fruit of righteousness. (Comp. Psalm 85:10.) For the same prominence given to its hills as the characteristic feature of Palestine, a land which is "not only mountainous, but a heap of mountains," comp. Joel 3:18. . . .