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3The mountains shall bring{H8799)} peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
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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!
Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. …
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 city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-17)This is a prophecy of the prosperity and perpetuity of the kingdom of Christ under the shadow of the reign of Solomon. It comes in, 1. As a plea to enforce the prayer: “Lord, give him thy judgments and thy righteousness , and then he shall judge thy people with righteousness , and so shall answer the end of his elevation, Ps. 72:2. Give him thy grace, and then thy people, committed to his charge,…
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