Psalms 72
72
PSALM 72
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
A Psalm for Solomon.
1O Lord, thy judgments give the king,
his son thy righteousness.
2With right he shall thy people judge,
thy poor with uprightness.
3The lofty mountains shall bring forth
unto the people peace;
Likewise the little hills the same
shall do by righteousness.
4The people's poor ones he shall judge,
the needy's children save;
And those shall he in pieces break
who them oppressed have.
5They shall thee fear, while sun and moon
do last, through ages all.
6Like rain on mown grass he shall drop,
or show'rs on earth that fall.
7The just shall flourish in his days,
and prosper in his reign:
He shall, while doth the moon endure,
abundant peace maintain.
8His large and great dominion shall
from sea to sea extend:
It from the river shall reach forth
unto earth's utmost end.
9They in the wilderness that dwell
bow down before him must;
And they that are his enemies
shall lick the very dust.
10The kings of Tarshish, and the isles,
to him shall presents bring;
And unto him shall offer gifts
Sheba's and Seba's king.
11Yea, all the mighty kings on earth
before him down shall fall;
And all the nations of the world
do service to him shall.
12For he the needy shall preserve,
when he to him doth call;
The poor also, and him that hath
no help of man at all.
13The poor man and the indigent
in mercy he shall spare;
He shall preserve alive the souls
of those that needy are.
14Both from deceit and violence
their soul he shall set free;
And in his sight right precious
and dear their blood shall be.
15Yea, he shall live, and giv'n to him
shall be of Sheba's gold:
For him still shall they pray, and he
shall daily be extoll'd.
16Of corn an handful in the earth
on tops of mountains high,
With prosp'rous fruit shall shake, like trees
on Lebanon that be.
The city shall be flourishing,
her citizens abound
In number shall, like to the grass
that grows upon the ground.
17His name for ever shall endure;
last like the sun it shall:
Men shall be bless'd in him,
and bless'd all nations shall him call.
18Now blessed be the Lord our God,
the God of Israel,
For he alone doth wondrous works,
in glory that excel.
19And blessed be his glorious name
to all eternity:
The whole earth let his glory fill.
Amen, so let it be.
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
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Psalms 72
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PSALM 72
1 To Solomon. God, give thy doom to the king; and thy rightfulness [or rightwiseness] to the son of the king.
2To deem thy people in rightfulness [or rightwiseness]; and thy poor men in doom.
3Mountains receive peace to the people; and little hills receive rightful-ness [or rightwiseness].
4He shall deem the poor men of the people, and he shall make safe the sons of poor men; and he shall make low the false challenger.
5And he shall dwell with the sun, and before the moon, that is, without beginning, and end; in generation and into generation.
6He shall come down as rain into a fleece; and as gutters dropping on the earth.
7Rightfulness [or rightwiseness] shall come forth in his days; and the abun-dance of peace, till the moon be taken away.
8And he shall be lord from the sea till to the sea; and from the flood till to the ends of the world.
9Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the earth.
10The kings of Tarshish and isles shall offer gifts; the kings of Arabia and of Seba shall bring gifts.
11And all kings shall worship him; all folks shall serve him.
12For he shall deliver a poor man from the mighty; and a poor man to whom there was none helper.
13He shall spare a poor man and needy; and he shall make safe the souls of poor men.
14He shall again-buy the souls of them from usuries, and wickedness; and the name of them is honourable before him.
15And he shall live, and men shall give to him of the gold of Arabia; and they shall ever worship of him, all day they shall bless him.
16Steadfastness shall be in the earth, in the highest place of mountains; the fruit thereof shall be enhanced above the Lebanon; and they shall blossom from the city, as the hay of earth doeth.
17His name be blessed into worlds; his name dwell before the sun. And all the lineages of earth shall be blessed in him; all folks shall magnify him.
18Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; which alone maketh marvels.
19And blessed be the name of his majesty without end; and all earth shall be filled with his majesty; be it done, be it done.
20 The prayers, [or praisings, or hymns], of David, the son of Jesse, be ended.
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