May the mountains bring peace to the people, and the hills bring righteousness.
Parallel translations
- WEB The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
- KJV The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
- NKJV The mountains will bring peace to the people, And the little hills, by righteousness.
- NASB May the mountains bring peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness.
- NLT May the mountains yield prosperity for all, and may the hills be fruitful.
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Quick answer
Under the king's righteous rule, the very mountains and hills will yield prosperity and the fruit of righteousness.
Overview
The land itself flourishes when justice reigns, a poetic picture of peace and abundance flowing from righteous government. Creation prospers under God-honoring leadership. This points to the messianic age, when Christ's reign brings the restoration of all things and creation's renewal (Romans 8:19-21).
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Cross-references · 11
- Isa 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
- Ezek 34:13–14I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land.
- Joel 3:18And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.
- Ps 72:16May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.
- Ps 98:8–9Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy
- 2 Cor 5:19–21that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
- Ps 65:12The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.
- Isa 32:16–17Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.
- Dan 9:24Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
- Ps 85:10–11Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.
- Ps 96:11–13Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.
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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.
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