Psalms 71

¹Concerning Salomon.

²O God give thy judgment to the king: and thy justice to the son of the king. To judge thy people in justice, and thy poor in judgment.

³Let the mountains receive peace for the people: and the little hills justice.

⁴He shall judge the poor of the people, and shall save the children of the poor: and he shall humble the calumniator.

⁵And he shall continue with the sun, and before the moon in generation and generation.

⁶He shall descend as rain upon a fleece: and as drops distilling upon the earth.

⁷There shall rise in his days justice, and aboundance of peace, until the moon be taken away.

⁸And he shall rule from sea unto sea: and from the river even to the ends of the round world.

⁹Before him shall the Æthiopians fall down: and his enemies shall lick the earth.

¹⁰The kings of Tharsis, and the Islands shall offer presents: the kings of the Arabians, and of Saba shall bring gifts.

¹¹And all kings of the earth shall adore him: all nations shall serve him.

¹²Because he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the poor which had no helper.

¹³He shall spare the poor and needy: and he shall save the souls of the poor.

¹⁴From usuries and iniquity he shall redeem their souls: and their name shall be honourable before him.

¹⁵And he shall live, and there shall be given him of the gold of Arabia, and they shall adore it always: all the day they shall bless him.

¹⁶And there shall be a firmament in the earth in the tops of mountains, the fruit thereof shall be extolled far above Libanus: and they shall flourish of the city, as the grass of the earth.

¹⁷Be his name blessed for ever: before the sun his name is permanent. And all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall magnify him.

¹⁸Blessed be our Lord the God of Israel, who only doth marvelous things.

¹⁹And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his majesty. Be it, be it.

²⁰The praises of David, the son of Jesse are ended.