Psalms 72:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִשְׂא֤וּ הָרִ֓ים שָׁ֘ל֥וֹם לָעָ֑ם וּ֝גְבָע֗וֹת בִּצְדָקָֽה׃

Transliteration

yiśəʾû hārîm shālôm to-ʿām and-gəbāʿôt in-ṣədāqāh

Grammar Details

• *yiśəʾû*: verb, imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will lift/bear
• *hārîm*: noun, masculine, plural - mountains
• *shālôm*: noun, masculine, singular - peace
• *lā-ʿām*: preposition + noun, masculine, singular - to/for the people
• *û-gəbāʿôt*: conjunction + noun, feminine, plural - and hills
• *bi-ṣədāqāh*: preposition + noun, feminine, singular - in/with righteousness

Word Meanings

• *yiśəʾû*: they will bring/bear/carry
• *hārîm*: mountains/heights
• *shālôm*: peace/prosperity/welfare
• *ʿām*: people/nation/folk
• *gəbāʿôt*: hills/heights
• *ṣədāqāh*: righteousness/justice/righteous acts

Referenced Verses

• Isa 52:7 : 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!
• Ezek 34:13-14 : 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country. 14 I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Joel 3:18 : 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
• 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. 21 {G1063} Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• Ps 65:12 : 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; And the hills are girded with joy.
• Ps 72:16 : 16 There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
• Ps 85:10-11 : 10 Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven.
• Ps 96:11-13 : 11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; 12 Let the field exult, and all that is therein; Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy 13 Before Jehovah; For he cometh, For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with his truth.
• Ps 98:8-9 : 8 Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy together 9 Before Jehovah; For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity.
• Isa 32:16-17 : 16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the fruitful field. 17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.