As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
(As) the mountains (are) round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from henceforth even forever - (Zechariah 2:5.) 'Jerusalem is upon the mountain-range shut in by the two valleys Jehoshaphat and Hinnom. All the surrounding hills are higher. In the east, the mount of Olives; on the south, the so-called hill of evil counsel, ascending from the valley of Hinnom. On the west the ground rises gently to the border of the great Wady; while in the north the bend of a ridge which adjoins the mount of Olives limits the view to a distance of about one and a half miles' (Robinson).