American Standard Version (ASV) - Psalm 72

The reign of the righteous king.

A Psalm of Solomon.

72 Give the king thy judgments, O God,
And thy righteousness unto the king’s son.
^{2 [a]}He will judge thy people with righteousness,
And thy poor with justice.
³ The mountains shall bring peace to the people,
And the hills, in righteousness.
⁴ He will judge the poor of the people,
He will save the children of the needy,
And will break in pieces the oppressor.
⁵ They shall fear thee while the sun endureth,
And ^[b]so long as the moon, throughout all generations.
⁶ He will come down like rain upon the mown grass,
As showers that water the earth.
⁷ In his days shall the righteous flourish,
And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.
⁸ He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,
And from the River unto the ends of the earth.
⁹ They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him;
And his enemies shall lick the dust.
¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute:
The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
¹¹ Yea, all kings shall fall down before him;
All nations shall serve him.
¹² For he will deliver the needy when he crieth,
And the poor, ^[c]that hath no helper.
¹³ He will have pity on the ^[d]poor and needy,
And the souls of the needy he will save.
¹⁴ He will redeem their soul from ^[e]oppression and violence;
And precious will their blood be in his sight:
¹⁵ And ^[f]they shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba:
And men shall pray for him continually;
They shall bless him all the day long.
¹⁶ There shall be ^[g]abundance of grain in the ^[h]earth upon the top of the mountains;
The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon:
And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
¹⁷ His name shall endure for ever;
His name shall ^[i]be continued ^[j]as long as the sun:
And men shall ^[k]be blessed in him;
All nations shall call him happy.

¹⁸ Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel,
Who only doeth wondrous things:
¹⁹ And blessed be his glorious name for ever;
And let the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen, and Amen.

²⁰ The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Footnotes

1. Psalm 72:2 Or, Let him (and so throughout the Psalm)
2. Psalm 72:5 Hebrew before the moon.
3. Psalm 72:12 Or, and him that hath
4. Psalm 72:13 Or, weak
5. Psalm 72:14 Or, fraud
6. Psalm 72:15 Or, he
7. Psalm 72:16 Or, a handful
8. Psalm 72:16 Or, land
9. Psalm 72:17 Or, have issue
10. Psalm 72:17 Hebrew before the sun.
11. Psalm 72:17 Or, bless themselves