a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figurative… · noun, common masculine plural absolute
bring
יִשְׂא֤וּyis.'U
H5375
to lift · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
peace
שָׁ֘ל֥וֹםsha.Lom
H7965
safe · noun, common masculine singular absolute
people
לָעָ֑םla.'Am
H5971
a people (as a congregated unit) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
hills
וּ֝גְבָע֗וֹתu.ge.va.'ot
H1389
a hillock · conjunction + noun, common feminine plural absolute
righteousness
בִּצְדָקָֽהbitz.da.Kah
H6666
rightness (abstractly) · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
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Cross-references
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,…
2 Corinthians 5:19-21 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the…
Psalms 65:12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
Psalms 72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the ci…
Psalms 85:10-11 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
Psalms 96:11-13 Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Psalms 98:8-9 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
Isaiah 32:16-17 Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
John Gill on Psalms 72:3
The mountains shall bring peace to the people,.... The people of God, as before. Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret this of the nations, and kings of the nations, comparable to mountains and hills, as in Micah 6:1; that should make peace with Israel in the days of Solomon, and in the days of the King Messiah. Jarchi, of the abundance of fruit the mountains and hills should bring forth; so that there would be no contention among men about gathering it; but everyone would invite his neighbour to partake thereof, according to Zechariah 3:10, and so the Midrash (p). The Targum explains it of the inhabitants of the mountains; and may be applied to the churches of Christ, comparable to the mountains…
Psalm 72:1-6
1. O God! give thy judgments to the king, and thy righteousness to the king's son. 2. He shall judge thy people in righteousness, and thy poor ones in judgment. 3. The mountains shall bring forth peace to the people, and the hills in righteousness. [121] 4. He shall judge the poor of the people; he shall save the children of the afflicted; and shall break in pieces the calumniator. 5. They shall fear thee with the sun; and generation of generations shall fear thee [122] in the presence of the moon. 6. He shall descend as rain upon the mown grass; as the showers [123] which water the earth.
1. O God! give thy judgments to the king. [124] While David, to whom the promise had bee…
The name of God, occurring only once, is Elohim; and this is sufficient to stamp the Psalm as an Elohimic Psalm. מלך (cf. Psa 21:2) and בּן־מלך are only used without the article according to a poetical usage of the language. The petition itself, and even the position of the words, show that the king's son is present, and that he is king; God is implored to bestow upon him His משׁפּטים, i.e., the rights or legal powers belonging to Him, the God of Israel, and צדקה, i.e., the official gift in order that he may exercise those rights in accordance with divine righteousness. After the supplicatory teen the futures which now follow, without the Waw apodoseos, are manifestly optatives. Mountains an…
The Church Fathers
"Let the mountains bear peace to the people, and the hills justice" [Psalm 72:3]. The mountains are the greater, the hills the less. These are without doubt those which another Psalm hath, "little with great." For those mountains did exult like rams, and those hills like lambs of the sheep, at the departure of Israel out of Egypt, that is, at the deliverance of the people of God from this world's servitude. Those then that are eminent in the Church for passing sanctity, are the mountains, who are meet to teach other men also, by so speaking as that they may be faithfully taught, by so living as that they may imitate them to their profit: but the hills are they that follow the excellence of the former by their own obedience. Why then "the mountains peace: and the hills justice"? Would there perchance have been no difference, even if it had been said thus, Let the mountains bear justice to the people and the hills peace? For to both justice, and to both peace is necessary: and it may be that under another name justice herself may have been called peace. For this is true peace, not such as unjust men make among them. Or rather with a distinction not to be overlooked must that be understood which he saith, "the mountains peace, and the hills justice"? For men excelling in the Church ought to counsel for peace with watchful care; lest for the sake of their own distinctions by acting proudly they make schisms and dissever the bond of union. But let the hills so follow them by imitation and obedience, that they prefer Christ to them: lest being led astray by the empty authority of evil mountains (for they seem to excel), they tear themselves away from the Unity of Christ...
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Dictionary and topics
Hill — (1.) Heb. gib’eah, a curved or rounded hill, such as are common to Palestine (Ps. 65:12; 72:3; 114:4, 6). (2.) Heb. har, properly a mountain range rather than an individual eminence (Ex. 24:4, 12,…
Psalms, Book Of — The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill’im, “Praises;” but in the actual superscriptions of the psalms the word Tehillah is applied only to one, (Psalms 145:1) ... which is indeed emphatically…
Gentiles · PROPHECIES OF THE CONVERSION OF — PROPHECIES OF THE CONVERSION OF
Judge · Kings and other rulers as — Kings and other rulers as
King · Acts as — Acts as
Mountains · Illustrative: Of persons in authority — Illustrative: Of persons in authority
Nation · Promises of peace to — Promises of peace to
Peace, Spiritual · Promised to: Saints — Promised to: Saints
Rulers · CHARACTER AND QUALIFI — CHARACTER AND QUALIFI
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Psalms 72:3 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
The administration of justice transforms the earth into fruitfulness, abundance, harmony, and goodness (see Isa 32:16-17).
Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 72:3
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people. Thence, aforetime, rushed the robber bands which infested the country; but now the forts there erected are the guardians of the land, and the watchmen publish far and near the tidings that no foe is to be seen. Where Jesus is there is peace, lasting, deep, eternal. Even those things which were once our dread, lose all terror when Jesus is owned as monarch of the heart: death itself, that dark mountain, loses all its gloom. Trials and afflictions, when the Lord is with us, bring us an increase rather than a diminution of peace. And the little hills, by righteo…
