Psalms 72

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

For Solomon. O God, give thy judgment to the king, and thy righteousness to the king's son;

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

[that he may] judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.

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

Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to thy people:

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

he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser.

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

And he shall continue as long as the sun, and before the moon for ever.

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

He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; and as drops falling upon the earth.

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

In his days shall righteousness spring up; and abundance of peace till the moon be removed.

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

And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.

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

The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

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

The kings of Tharsis, and the isles, shall bring presents: the kings of the Arabians and Saba shall offer gifts.

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

And all kings shall worship him; all the Gentiles shall serve him.

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

For he has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper.

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

He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall deliver the souls of the needy.

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

He shall redeem their souls from usury and injustice: and their name [shall be] precious before him.

15 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.

And he shall live, and there shall be given him of the gold of Arabia: and [men] shall pray for him continually; [and] all the day shall they praise him.

16 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.

There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains: the fruit thereof shall be exalted above Libanus, and they of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth.

17 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!

Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

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

Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders.

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

And blessed is his glorious name for ever, even for ever and ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his glory. So be it, so be it.

20 Ended are the prayers of David, son of Jesse.

The hymns of David the son of Jessae are ended.