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like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.
Psalms 133:3 · World English Bible
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  • KJV As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
  • BSB It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has bestowed the blessing of life forevermore.
  • NKJV It is like the dew of Hermon, Descending upon the mountains of Zion; For there the Lord commanded the blessing— Life forevermore.
  • NASB It is like the dew of Hermon Coming down upon the mountains of Zion; For the Lord commanded the blessing there—life forever.
  • NLT Harmony is as refreshing as the dew from Mount Hermon that falls on the mountains of Zion. And there the Lord has pronounced his blessing, even life everlasting.

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Quick answer

Unity is like Hermon's dew on Zion, where God commands blessing and eternal life. It teaches that God Himself bestows life and blessing where His people dwell in unity.

Overview

David likens unity to refreshing dew descending on Zion, the place where the Lord commands His blessing, even life forevermore. Unity becomes the setting in which God pours out life-giving favor. This eternal life is given in Christ, who gathers His people into one and grants them everlasting life.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Deut 28:8Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to. He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
  • Lev 25:21then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
  • Ps 42:8Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.
  • Deut 4:48from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (also called Hermon),
  • 1 Jn 5:11The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • Rom 5:21that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Ps 16:11You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
  • Mic 5:7The remnant of Jacob will be among many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don’t wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
  • John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
  • Josh 13:11and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
  • Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • John 5:29and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
  • Deut 3:8–9We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.
  • John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
  • 1 Jn 2:25This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.
  • Prov 19:12The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
  • John 6:50–51This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die.
  • Ps 21:4He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.
  • Rev 1:18and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.
  • John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
  • John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 133:3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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