Psalms 72:3

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Psalms 72:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Endow the king with Your justice, O God, and the son of the king with Your righteousness.

2 May he judge Your people with righteousness and Your afflicted with justice.

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

4 May he vindicate the afflicted among the people; may he save the children of the needy and crush the oppressor.

5 May they fear him as long as the sun shines, as long as the moon remains, through all generations.

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Psalms 72:16

May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.

Isaiah 32:16

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Isaiah 32:17

The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.

Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Ezekiel 34:13

I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land.

Ezekiel 34:14

I will feed them in good pasture, and the lofty mountains of Israel will be their grazing land. There they will lie down in a good grazing land; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Joel 3:18

And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

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The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills are robed with joy.

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Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.

Psalms 96:12

Let the fields exult, and all that is in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

Psalms 96:13

before the LORD, for He is coming— He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.

Psalms 98:8

Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy

Psalms 98:9

before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity.

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

2 Corinthians 5:19

that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:20

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ: Be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.