Psalms 72:3
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
In Context
2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
Cross References
Psalms 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
Psalms 85:11Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.
Psalms 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
Isaiah 32:17The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Ezekiel 34:13I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 72:3-18
The Kingdom of Messiah. 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment. 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness. 4 He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. 5 They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. 6 He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. 7 In his days shall the righteous… Read the whole commentary →