Psalms 72
72
Psalm 72
By Solomon.
1O God, give the king your justice
and the king’s son #72:1 According to ancient Jewish and Christian tradition, “king” and “king’s son” refer to the Messiah. your righteousness
2so that he may judge your people with righteousness
and your oppressed ⌞people⌟ with justice.
3May the mountains bring peace to the people
and the hills bring righteousness.
4May he grant justice to the people who are oppressed.
May he save the children of needy people
and crush their oppressor.
5May they fear you as long as the sun and moon ⌞shine⌟—
throughout every generation.
6May he be like rain that falls on ⌞freshly⌟ cut grass,
like showers that water the land.
7May righteous people blossom in his day.
May there be unlimited peace until the moon no longer ⌞shines⌟.
8May he rule from sea to sea,
from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.
9May the people of the desert kneel in front of him.
May his enemies lick the dust.
10May the kings from Tarshish and the islands bring presents.
May the kings from Sheba and Seba bring gifts.
11May all kings worship him.
May all nations serve him.
12He will rescue the needy person who cries for help
and the oppressed person who has no one’s help.
13He will have pity on the poor and needy
and will save the lives of the needy.
14He will rescue them from oppression and violence.
Their blood will be precious in his sight.
15May he live long.
May the gold from Sheba be given to him.
May ⌞the people⌟ pray for him continually.
May ⌞they⌟ praise him all day long.
16May there be plenty of grain in the land.
May it wave ⌞in the breeze⌟ on the mountaintops,
its fruit like ⌞the treetops of⌟ Lebanon.
May those from the city flourish like the grass on the ground.
17May his name endure forever.
May his name continue as long as the sun ⌞shines⌟.
May all nations be blessed through him and call him blessed.
18Thank the Lord God, the God of Israel,
who alone does miracles.
19Thanks be to his glorious name forever.
May the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen and amen!
20The prayers by David, son of Jesse, end here.
Currently Selected:
Psalms 72: GW
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
GOD'S WORD® Translation ©1995, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020 by God's Word to the Nations Mission Society. All rights reserved.
Psalms 72
72
PSALM 72.
1A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
2But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
4For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
5They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
6Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
8They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
9They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
10Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
11And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
13And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
14And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
15If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
17Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
19How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
21For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
22and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
23I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
24Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
25For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
26For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
27For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
28But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
Currently Selected:
:
Highlight
Share
Copy
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
An historical text maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.