Psalm 72
The Kingdom of the Messiah
1 Of Solomon.
O God, endow the king with your judgment,
the son of kings with your righteousness.
2 He will govern your people fairly
and deal justly with your poor ones.
3 The mountains will yield peace for the people,
and the hills, righteousness.
4 He will defend the afflicted among the people,
save the children of the poor,
and overwhelm the oppressor.
5 He will reign as long as the sun,
as long as the moon, through all generations.
6 He will descend like rain on the meadow,
like showers that water the earth.
7 Justice will reign in his days,
and peace will abound
until the moon is no more.
8 His rule will extend from sea to sea,
and from the river to the ends of the earth.
9 His foes will bow down before him,
and his enemies will lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and the Islands
will offer him tribute;
the kings of Sheba and Seba
will present him with gifts.
11 All kings will pay him homage,
and all nations will serve him.
12 For he will save the poor who cry out
and the needy who have no one to help them.
13 He will have pity on the lowly and the poor;
the lives of the needy he will save.
14 He will free them from oppression and violence,
for their blood is precious in his sight.
15 Long may he live!
May the gold of Sheba be given to him.
May people pray for him unceasingly
and invoke blessings on him all day long.
16 May grain abound throughout the land,
even growing abundantly on the mountain tops.
May its crops be as plenteous as those of Lebanon,
and may its people flourish like the grass of the field.
17 May his name be blessed forever;
may it endure as long as the sun.
May all peoples be blessed in him;
may all the nations proclaim his greatness.
18 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
who alone can perform such wondrous deeds.
19 May his glorious name be blessed forever,
and may the whole world be filled with his glory.
Amen. Amen.
20 The end of the psalms of David, son of Jesse.
Footnotes
- Psalm 72:1
- Psalm 72:2
- Psalm 72:8
- Psalm 72:9
- Psalm 72:10
- Psalm 72:15
- Psalm 72:15
- Psalm 72:16
- Psalm 72:17
- Psalm 72:18
- Psalm 72:20
