Parallel Verses
NET Bible
The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice.
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.
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.
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.
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
Judge » Kings and other rulers as
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 72:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Prayer For The King
2 Then he will judge your people fairly, and your oppressed ones equitably. 3 The mountains will bring news of peace to the people, and the hills will announce justice. 4 He will defend the oppressed among the people; he will deliver the children of the poor and crush the oppressor.
Cross References
Isaiah 52:7
How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains the feet of a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
Psalm 65:12
The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.
Psalm 72:16
May there be an abundance of grain in the earth; on the tops of the mountains may it sway! May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon! May its crops be as abundant as the grass of the earth!
Psalm 85:10-11
Loyal love and faithfulness meet; deliverance and peace greet each other with a kiss.
Psalm 96:11-13
Let the sky rejoice, and the earth be happy! Let the sea and everything in it shout!
Psalm 98:8-9
Let the rivers clap their hands! Let the mountains sing in unison
Isaiah 32:16-17
Justice will settle down in the desert and fairness will live in the orchard.
Ezekiel 34:13-14
I will bring them out from among the peoples and gather them from foreign countries; I will bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the streams and all the inhabited places of the land.
Daniel 9:24
"Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.
Joel 3:18
On that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the dry stream beds of Judah will flow with water. A spring will flow out from the temple of the Lord, watering the Valley of Acacia Trees.
2 Corinthians 5:19-21
In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people's trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation.