Psalms 72

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

Of Solomon - O God judgments your to [the] king give and righteousness your to [the] son of [the] king.

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

He will judge people your with righteousness and poor [people] your with justice.

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

They will carry mountains peace to the people and hills in righteousness.

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

He will judge - [the] poor [people] of [the] people he will save [the] children of [the] needy so he may crush [the] oppressor.

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

People will fear you with [the] sun and before [the] moon generation of generations.

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

He will come down like rain on mown grass like copious showers dropping of [the] earth.

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

He will flourish in days his [the] righteous and abundance of well-being [will be] until not [the] moon.

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

And may he rule from sea to sea and from [the] river to [the] ends of [the] earth.

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

Before him they will bow down desert-dwellers and enemies his dust they will lick up.

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 [the] islands tribute they will pay [the] kings of Sheba and Seba a gift they will bring near.

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

And they may bow down to him all kings all nations they will serve him.

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

For he will deliver [the] needy [who] cries for help and [the] poor and not a helper [belongs] to him.

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

He will have compassion on [the] poor and [the] needy and [the] lives of needy [people] he will save.

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

From oppression and from violence he will redeem life their and may be precious blood their in view his.

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.

And may he live and he may give to him some of [the] gold of Sheba and [may] someone pray for him continually all the day may someone bless him.

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 it be an abundance of grain - in the land on [the] top of [the] mountains may it wave like Lebanon fruit its and may people blossom from [the] city like [the] vegetation 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 it be name his for ever before [the] sun (may it increase *Q(K)*) name his and may they bless themselves by him all nations may they call blessed him.

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

[be] blessed - Yahweh God [the] God of Israel [who] does wonders to only him.

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 [be] blessed - [the] name of glory his for ever and may it be filled glory his all the earth amen - and amen.

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

They are finished [the] prayers of David [the] son of Jesse.