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Psalm 72:3
The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
1By Solomon. God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.
2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
3The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.
4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.
5They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
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Mountains and hills bear prosperity for the people, picturing righteousness as something whose fruit reaches beyond a ruler into the life of the land.
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Isaiah 9:6For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, …Psalm 72 prays for a king whose righteousness benefits the people; Isaiah names a ruler the Prince of Peace.
Psalm 29:11The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.Both psalms look toward the people's well-being: prosperity across the land in Psalm 72, strength and peace from God in Psalm 29.
Psalm 85:10Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.Both passages connect righteousness with well-being, pictured as fruitful hills in one and a meeting with peace in the other.
2 Thessalonians 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.The psalm pictures prosperity reaching the people; Paul's prayer seeks peace from the Lord at all times and in all ways.
Isaiah 52:7How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, …Mountains feature in both pictures of public good: they bring prosperity in the psalm and bear a messenger proclaiming peace in Isaiah.
Isaiah 45:8Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to …Both passages use the land's fruitfulness to picture righteousness: hills bear its fruit, and the earth causes it to spring up.
Isaiah 61:11For as the earth produces its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to …Righteousness takes the shape of growing things in both passages, bearing fruit in the hills and springing up like a garden.
1 Kings 4:24For he had dominion over all on this side of the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace on all sides …Psalm 72 envisions prosperity under a righteous king; Kings describes a ruler whose dominion was surrounded by peace.
2 Corinthians 5:19–21namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.The connection is broad: the psalm describes prosperity through righteousness, while Paul describes God reconciling the world to himself in Christ.
Zechariah 8:12“For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew. I will cause the remnant …Both passages picture the land yielding good for the people, with mountains bringing prosperity and vines and ground producing their harvest.
Daniel 9:24“Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity, to bring …Righteousness shapes the future pictured in both passages: its fruit benefits the people in the psalm, and Daniel speaks of everlasting righteousness.
Psalm 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.Both verses picture prosperity through the land's fruitfulness, moving from mountains and hills to abundant grain throughout the land.
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The psalm begins by asking God to give the king righteousness; the people's good rests on what God gives. The prosperity pictured here reaches across the land and includes the poor.
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