Parallel Verses

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.

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.

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

A Prayer For The King

2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. 3 Let the mountains bring peace to the people,
And the hills, in righteousness.
4 He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

Cross References

Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace and who bring good tidings of good things! For they proclaim salvation and say to Zion: Your God reigns as king! (Hebrew: Elohiym' malak': God rules!)

Psalm 65:12

The pastures of the wilderness drip, and the hills surround themselves with rejoicing.

Psalm 72:16

There shall be abundance of grain throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

Psalm 85:10-11

Mercy and truth have met. Righteousness and peace have kissed.

Psalm 96:11-13

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fullness of it.

Psalm 98:8-9

Let the rivers clap their hands and the mountains sing joyfully.

Isaiah 32:16-17

Then justice will live in the wilderness, and righteousness will be at home in the fertile field.

Ezekiel 34:13-14

I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries and bring them to their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel. I will feed them by the streams, and in all the inhabited places of the land.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

Joel 3:18

It will happen in that day that the mountains will drop sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the brooks of Judah will flow with water. A fountain will come forth from the house of Jehovah and water the valley of Shittim.

2 Corinthians 5:19-21

God was reconciling the world to himself through Christ. He was not imputing their trespasses against them, for he had committed the word of reconciliation to us.

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