Psalms 72

1 BY SOLOMON. O God, give Your judgments to the king, And Your righteousness to the king’s Son.

Solomon’s. O God! thy justice, give, unto the king, And thy righteousness, unto the son of a king;

2 He judges Your people with righteousness, And Your poor with judgment.

May he judge, Thy people with righteousness; And thine oppressed ones with justice;

3 The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness.

May the mountains bring peace to the people, And the hills [be laden] with righteousness;

4 He judges the poor of the people, Gives deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruises the oppressor.

May he, Vindicate the oppressed of the people, Bring deliverance to the children of the needy, and, Crush the oppressor.

5 They fear You with the sun, and before the moon, Generation—generations.

Let men revere thee, With the sun, And in presence of the moon, Unto the remotest generation.

6 He comes down as rain on mown grass, As showers—sprinkling the earth.

Let him come down, Like rain on fields to be mown, Like myriad drops on land to be reaped.

7 The righteous flourish in His days, And abundance of peace until the moon is not.

May righteousness, in his days, blossom forth, And abundance of peace, till there be no moon.

8 And He rules from sea to sea, And from the river to the ends of the earth.

So let him have dominion, From sea to sea, And from the River ["Euphrates"] unto the ends of the earth;

9 Desert-dwellers bow before Him, And His enemies lick the dust.

Before him, let the men of the desert kneel, But, as for his foes, the dust, let them lick;

10 Kings of Tarshish and of the islands send back a present. Kings of Sheba and Seba bring a reward near.

The kings of Tarshish and of the Coastlands, A gift, let them render, The kings of Sheba and Seba, A present, let them bring;

11 And all kings bow themselves to Him, All nations serve Him,

Yea let all kings, bow down unto him, Let, all nations, serve him;

12 For He delivers the needy who cries, And the poor when he has no helper,

Because he Rescueth, The needy from the rich, The oppressed, who hath no helper;

13 He has pity on the poor and needy, And He saves the souls of the needy,

He Pitieth the weak and the needy, And, the lives of the needy, he Saveth:

14 He redeems their soul from fraud and from violence, And their blood is precious in His eyes.

From extortion, and, violence, he Redeemeth their life, And precious is their blood in his sight.

15 And He lives, and the gold of Sheba [is] given to Him, And prayer is continually made for Him, All day He is continually blessed.

Let him live, then! And be there given unto him of the gold of Sheba, —Let prayer also be offered for him continually, All the day, let him be blessed.

16 There is a handful of grain in the earth, On the top of mountains, Its fruit shakes like Lebanon, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.

May there be an abundance of corn in the earth, in the top of the mountains, —Let the fruit thereof, wave like Lebanon, And they of the city bloom like the fresh shoots of the earth.

17 His Name is for all time, Before the sun is His Name continued, And they bless themselves in Him, All nations pronounce Him blessed.

May his Name be age-abiding, In the presence of the sun, let his Name flourish, —And may all the families of the ground bless themselves in him, All nations, pronounce him happy!

18 Blessed is YHWH God, God of Israel, He alone is doing wonders,

Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, —Who doeth wondrous things by himself alone;

19 And blessed [is] the Name of His glory for all time, And the whole earth is filled [with] His glory. Amen and amen!

And blessed be his glorious Name, unto times age-abiding, —And filled with his glory be all the earth, Amen and Amen!

20 The prayers of David son of Jesse have been ended.

Ended are the prayers of David, son of Jesse.