Psalms 72:3 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 72:3

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

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ASV

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

WEB

May the mountains bring peace to the people, and the hills bring righteousness.

YLT

The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness.

DBT

The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, by righteousness.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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23 verses on the floor

Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Psalms 29:11
The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
Psalms 85:10
Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Isaiah 60:18
Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

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); for then only is the peace like a river, when the righteousness is as the waves of the sea. The world will be judged in righteousness, Acts xvii. That it should be a peaceable government: The mountains shall bring peace, and the little hills (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

As mountains and hills are not usually productive, they are here selected to show the abundance of peace, being represented as bringing--or, literally, "bearing" it as a produce. by righteousness--that is, by means of his eminently just and good methods of ruling.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

The mountains - Which are so dangerous to passengers, in regard of robbers and wild beasts. Hereby it is implied, that other places should do so too, and that it should be common and universal.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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