Psalms 72:1-13 ▼

1 <V 71:1>A Psalm according to Solomon.

2 <V 71:2>Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.

3 <V 71:3>Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice.

4 <V 71:4>He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser.

5 <V 71:5>And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation.

6 <V 71:6>He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.

7 <V 71:7>In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away.

8 <V 71:8>And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world.

9 <V 71:9>In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground.

10 <V 71:10>The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts.

11 <V 71:11>And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him.

12 <V 71:12>For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper.

13 <V 71:13>He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor.