Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness.

New American Standard Bible

Let the mountains bring peace to the people,
And the hills, in righteousness.

King James Version

The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

Holman Bible

May the mountains bring prosperity to the people
and the hills, righteousness.

International Standard Version

May the mountains bring prosperity to the people and the hills bring 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.

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.

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

A Prayer For The King

2 May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor. 3 May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness. 4 May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.


Cross References

Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!

Psalm 65:12

Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

Psalm 72:16

May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

Psalm 85:10-11

Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.

Psalm 96:11-13

Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

Isaiah 32:16-17

Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.

Ezekiel 34:13-14

And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

Joel 3:18

And it will come about in that day that the mountains will be dropping sweet wine, and the hills will be flowing with milk, and all the streams of Judah will be flowing with water; and a fountain will come out from the house of the Lord, watering the valley of acacia-trees.

2 Corinthians 5:19-21

That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.

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