Why the Deeds of the Righteous Bear Fruit Like the Mountains

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Noach 8:5

Another interpretation of "Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains" (Psalms 36:7): Just as the mountains are sown and produce fruit, so too the deeds of the righteous produce fruit, as it is said, "Say of the righteous that it shall be well with him, [for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds]" (Isaiah 3:10). "And Your judgments are a great deep" (Psalms 36:7): Just as the deep is neither sown nor produces fruit, so too the deeds of the wicked do not produce fruit, as it is said, "Woe to the wicked, it shall be ill with him, etc." (Isaiah 3:11).

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