Psalm 72:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ May the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people, And the little hills, by righteousness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, through [the general establishment of] righteousness.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness.

Common English Bible

³ Let the mountains bring peace to the people; let the hills bring righteousness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For I was zealous over the iniquitous, seeing the peacefulness of sinners.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

Psalm 72:3 Cross References

Psalm 65:12

The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills gird themselves with joy;

Psalm 72:16

May there be abundance of grain in the land; may it wave on the tops of the mountains; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field.

Isaiah 45:8

Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may spring up, and let it cause righteousness to sprout up also; I the Lord have created it.

Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

Isaiah 60:17

Instead of bronze I will bring gold; instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze; instead of stones, iron. I will appoint Peace as your overseer and Righteousness as your taskmaster.

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city: to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

Joel 3:18

In that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Wadi Shittim.