Psalms 72

1 Of Solomon. Give the king, O God, your own spirit of justice your spirit of right to the son of the king,

to/for Solomon God justice your to/for king to give: give and righteousness your to/for son: child king

2 that with right he may judge your people, and your downtrodden ones with justice.

to judge people your in/on/with righteousness and afflicted your in/on/with justice

3 May the mountains bear weal for the people, and the hills yield fruits of justice.

to lift: bear mountain: mount peace: well-being to/for people and hill in/on/with righteousness

4 The weak may he help to their rights, may he save the sons of the needy and crush the oppressor in pieces.

to judge afflicted people to save to/for son: child needy and to crush to oppress

5 May he live as long as the sun, while the moon shines – for ages and ages.

to fear you with sun and to/for face moon generation generation

6 May he be like the rain on the meadow, like showers that water the earth.

to go down like/as rain upon fleece like/as shower drip land: country/planet

7 In his days may justice flourish, and welfare abound, till the moon be no more.

to sprout in/on/with day his righteous and abundance peace till without moon

8 May he reign from ocean to ocean, from the river to the ends of the earth.

and to rule from sea till sea and from River till end land: country/planet

9 May his foes bow down before him, his enemies lick the dust.

to/for face: before his to bow wild beast and enemy his dust to lick

10 May tribute be rendered by kings of the isles and of Tarshish; may gifts be brought by the kings of Sheba and Seba.

king Tarshish and coastland offering: tribute to return: pay king Sheba and Seba gift to present: bring

11 May all kings fall prostrate before him, and all nations yield him their service.

and to bow to/for him all king all nation to serve: minister him

12 For he saves the poor when he cries, the helpless and the downtrodden.

for to rescue needy to cry and afflicted and nothing to help to/for him

13 He pities the weak and the poor, he saves the lives of the poor.

to pity upon poor and needy and soul: life needy to save

14 He redeems them from wrong and from violence, for dear is their blood in his sight.

from oppression and from violence to redeem: redeem soul: life their and be precious blood their in/on/with eye: seeing his

15 Long may he live; and may gold of Sheba be given him; prayer, too, be made for him ceaselessly, all the day long may men bless him.

and to live and to give: give to/for him from gold Sheba and to pray about/through/for him continually all [the] day to bless him

16 May the land have abundance of corn, to the tops of the hills may it wave. May the fruit thereof flourish like Lebanon, may men spring from the city like grass of the earth.

to be abundance grain in/on/with land: country/planet in/on/with head: top mountain: mount to shake like/as Lebanon fruit his and to blossom from city like/as vegetation [the] land: country/planet

17 May his name be blessed forever, may his fame endure as the sun. May all nations envy his blessedness, all tribes of the earth call him happy.

to be name his to/for forever: enduring to/for face: before sun (to propagate *QK) name his and to bless in/on/with him all nation to bless him

18 Blest be the Lord God, Israel’s God, who alone does wonders;

to bless LORD God God Israel to make: do to wonder to/for alone him

19 And blest be forever his glorious name. Let all the earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.

and to bless name glory his to/for forever: enduring and to fill glory his [obj] all [the] land: country/planet amen and amen

20 Here end the prayers of David, son of Jesse.

to end: finish prayer David son: child Jesse