Psalms 72

1 A Psalme of Salomon. Give thy iudgements to the King, O God, and thy righteousnesse to the Kings sonne.

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

2 Then shall he iudge thy people in righteousnesse, and thy poore with equitie.

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

3 The mountaines and the hilles shall bring peace to the people by iustice.

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

4 He shall iudge the poore of the people: he shall saue the children of the needie, and shall subdue the oppressor.

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

5 They shall feare thee as long as the sunne and moone endureth, from generatio to generation.

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

6 He shall come downe like the rayne vpon the mowen grasse, and as the showres that water the earth.

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

7 In his dayes shall the righteous florish, and abundance of peace shalbe so long as the moone endureth.

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

8 His dominion shall be also from sea to sea, and from the Riuer vnto the endes of the land.

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

9 They that dwell in ye wildernes, shall kneele before him, and his enemies shall licke the dust.

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

10 The Kings of Tarshish and of the yles shall bring presents: the Kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring giftes.

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 Yea, all Kings shall worship him: all nations shall serue him.

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

12 For he shall deliuer the poore when he cryeth: the needie also, and him that hath no helper.

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

13 He shalbe mercifull to the poore and needie, and shall preserue the soules of the poore.

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

14 He shall redeeme their soules from deceite and violence, and deare shall their blood be in his sight.

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

15 Yea, he shall liue, and vnto him shall they giue of the golde of Sheba: they shall also pray for him continually, and dayly blesse him.

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 An handfull of corne shall be sowen in the earth, euen in the toppe of the mountaines, and the fruite thereof shall shake like the trees of Lebanon: and the children shall florish out of the citie like the grasse 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 shall be for euer: his name shall indure as long as the sunne: all nations shall blesse him, and be blessed in him.

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 be the Lord God, euen the God of Israel, which onely doeth wonderous things.

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

19 And blessed be his glorious Name for euer: and let all the earth be filled with his glorie. So be it, euen so be it.

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

20 HERE END THE prayers of Dauid, the sonne of Ishai.

Ended are the prayers of David, son of Jesse.