Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
May the mountains bring prosperity to the people and the hills bring righteousness.
New American Standard Bible
And the hills, in righteousness.
King James Version
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
Holman Bible
and the hills, righteousness.
A Conservative Version
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, in righteousness.
American Standard Version
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness.
Amplified
The mountains will bring peace and prosperity to the people,
And the hills, in [the establishment of] righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.
Darby Translation
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, by righteousness.
Julia Smith Translation
The mountains shall lift up peace to the people, and the hills in justice.
King James 2000
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let [the] mountains yield prosperity for the people, and [the] hills in righteousness.
Modern King James verseion
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills by righteousness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The mountains also shall bring peace, and the little hills righteousness unto the people.
NET Bible
The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice.
New Heart English Bible
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
The Emphasized Bible
May the mountains bring peace to the people, And the hills be laden with righteousness;
Webster
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
World English Bible
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
Youngs Literal Translation
The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness.
Themes
Jesus Christ » Messiah » Messianic psalms
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 72:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer For The King
2 May he rule your people with right decisions and your oppressed ones with justice. 3 May the mountains bring prosperity to the people and the hills bring righteousness. 4 May he defend the afflicted of the people and deliver the children of the poor, but crush the oppressor.
Cross References
Isaiah 52:7
"How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of the one who brings news of peace, who announces good things, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!'
Psalm 65:12
The wilderness pastures drip with dew, and the hills wrap themselves with joy.
Psalm 72:16
May grain be abundant in the land all the way to the mountain tops; may its fruits flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and may the cities sprout like the grass of the earth.
Psalm 85:10-11
Gracious love and truth meet; righteousness and peace kiss.
Psalm 96:11-13
The heavens will be glad and the earth will rejoice; even the sea and everything that fills it will roar.
Psalm 98:8-9
let the rivers clap their hands in unison; and let the mountains sing for joy
Isaiah 32:16-17
"Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
Ezekiel 34:13-14
I'm going to bring them out from foreign nations and from foreign lands. Then I'll bring them to their own land and feed them in Israel on the mountains, in their valleys, and in all of their settlements throughout the land.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Joel 3:18
It will come about at that time that the mountains will drip with newly pressed wine, the hills will flow with milk, and the streams of Judah will flow abundantly. A fountain will spring from the Temple of the LORD, to water the Valley of the Acacias.
2 Corinthians 5:19-21
for through the Messiah, God was reconciling the world to himself by not counting their sins against them. He has committed his message of reconciliation to us.